The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life between the Wars (Rural)

by Fred Archer (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.31

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.31

  When Fred Archer was a boy, men's voices were deep and mellow as they rang out following the plough, or sang in church on Sundays, a farmer could make a living with a herd of 20 cows, and each village had a blacksmith and wheelwright. Workers days were broken only by the turning rhythm of the seasons and the pleasure of a chat when they stopped for their bait of bread and cheese. This book recreates those days of the 1920s and 30s when life was so different from today.