A reference from the book "Fields".
A lovely chronicle of life in another time - a small village and farming community on the fens at the end of the 19th C and the beginning of the 20th C. The original manuscript was started by the author's father in the wonderful voice of a man of little education of the time - lovely vocabulary and turns of phrases. It reads more as spoken word than as writing. The author finished off the book after her father's death and then went on to collect her mother's story.
A great evocation of life in another time before so much of what has shaped our life in the course of the 20th century, when people's worlds were much smaller.
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