Product Description

The author of Akenfield's brilliant reconstruction of life in England between the wars, a period abounding with astonishing figures from Joynson-Hicks cleaning up London's morals while defending the shooting of 379 Indians at Amritsar, to T.E. Lawrence, Mrs Meyrick being regularly raided at the '43', and the Rector of Stiffkey's remarkable capers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #315283 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Ronald Blythe has written poetry, short stories, history and literary criticism, much of it reflecting his East Anglian background. His first novel, A REASONABLE GROWTH, was published in 1960, and AKENFIELD, his remarkable evocation of rural change, appeared in 1969. It was followed by THE VIEW IN WINTER, THE AGE OF ILLUSION and the anthology WRITING IN A WAR, which contain further personal assessments of Britain's recent past. His other books are DIVINE LANDSCAPES, THE PENGUIN BOOK OF DIARIES, FIRST FRIENDS, WORD FROM WORMINGFORD, OUT OF THE VALLEY, and a volume of collected essays, FROM THE HEADLANDS. His work has been translated and filmed and has received a number of literary awards.

Customer Reviews

A great introduction to what happened before Churchill
Bought this because I saw it in the Amazon sale and it looked interesting, and I was a good judge! It's a great book, evoking the era brilliantly. Sometimes the author gets a little carried away on a tide of words so that the odd sentence is difficult to follow, but his synthesis of the events is masterful, making the period seem an exceptionally important one. I found the later chapters about the run-up to the war especially interesting, but the tale of the Rector of Stiffkey is pretty amazing too.