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A Shropshire Boyhood

Peter Davies

出版	ISIS, 2007
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralFamily & Relationships / General
ISBN	07531943769780753194379
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h08TKQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The year is 1939, the year of the war. The place is Little Ness, a sandstone village in the shadow of the Shropshire hills. Peter Davies was then a boy of eleven, living with his family on their farm in the heart of the village. "A Shropshire Boyhood" is a wonderfully nostalgic and poetic account of the year when he was transplanted into a small-town grammar school, on the very day war began. Peter is a gifted and original writer, and he beautifully contrasts country life - running wild with gypsies, raiding a kestrel's nest, drinking mare's milk - with sophisticated Shrewsbury. Vitality and humour shine through on every page, as the author paints an evocative picture of a rural community that was barely touched by the war, where life was regulated by the farming seasons and the church calendar, and where children grew up with a love of nature that is all too rare today.