Akenfield by Ronald Blythe #foliosociety confections

confections

always hopeful - a poetic love letter against the more nefarious effects of purity culture packed with stacks of honeycomb

the echoes of tragedy and dark deeds

and ultimately shows himself to be a quite wonderful man

Akenfield by Ronald Blythe #foliosociety confections'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin 'Exquisite' John Updike 'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' Observer Ronald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to