Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story—with charm and humor in abundance—about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.

“A true delight...In this marvelous debut, film producer DePree leaves the Hollywood hills to resurrect his British ancestral home, a 50,000-square-foot estate in the English countryside. Readers are in for a treat."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Hollywood producer Hopwood DePree had been told as a boy that an ancestor...