Ronald Blythe

A vivid evocation of rural life first published in 1969, in which the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War, the concerns of the younger farm workers, and the personal recollections of a host of villagers paint a moving portrait of an English village in Suffolk.

Ronald Blythe had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. This memoir gathers up his many early experiences, sights and sounds.