A May Day fair in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green brings to light pleasures and pains - past, present ant future.
*"Miss Read" so understands and loves the country and can write so tenderly and humorously about the minutiae of village life without distortion or sentimentality.
(The Times Literary Supplement)*
*"Miss Read", as a country dweller, has been blessed with a love of the dramas with which rural life is fraught, and a sense of humour. (Elizabeth Bowen in the Tatler)*
Utdrag ur boken:
"Get us up, girl," whispered the old lady, releasing her at last.
The child put her frail arms round the massive shoulders an gave an ineffectual heave,
"Give me my stick", ordered Mrs Curdle, "and both your hands!"
With much grunting and moaning she at last struggled to her feet, and stood, swaying slightly, in the gloom.