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From: "stan bayne" <>
Subject: [GEN-TRIVIA-UNIVERSAL] Akenfield
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:27:59 +1300


OK - I suggested a while back that if we could all contribute just one item
to this list each month it could become quite lively. I contributed in
January - no-one else did. But here's my effort for February. Give me
credit for persistence.

Have any of you ever read that interesting book "Akenfield" by Ronald
Blythe? I read it a few years ago and am now reading it again. It is a
portrait of a fictional East Anglian village in the earlier years of the
20th century, based on the actual reminiscences of people who lived in such
places, and is very readable. Although the author invented the village,
he based it on the place where he lived in the 1960s, and he looks
backwards as well as forwards from that time. It is well worth reading
for those who like to know what life was like for those English people who
lived in a rural area in the period spanning the late Victorian period and
the immediate post-WW2 years. Recommended reading as far as I am
concerned.

Stan
in New Zealand


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