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Country Ways

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By Terence Kearey
Published by Memoirs Publishing
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Published: Feb. 15, 2012
Words: 70,087 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908223579


Short description

Country Ways is the first in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain through the centuries from the perspective of his own family, stretching back to the Norman invasion to a narrowly-avoided German one. The others are History, Heroism and Home, A Changing World and A Distance Travelled.

Extended description

This is a story about the passage of time, from a Norman invasion to a narrowly-avoided German one. It tells of the joys and hardships of life in rural southern England through the seasons and through the centuries. It relates how a family coped with poverty and penury, and how one day in the 1930s a daughter went off to work in a mill. In due course this particular young woman went on to become a lady’s maid and eventually a London suburban housewife – and the author’s mother.

The tale is set in and around the town of Chard in the West Country, although many of the events described could have taken place almost anywhere in England. The family in the spotlight, the Collins family, were in the main men of the soil and women who toiled at home. Some were miners, made shoes or clay pipes, or repaired machines for the two main local industries, weaving and butter making. The lives of those men and women, and the lives of the community around them in a rural England which is now l.. (Read more)

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fiction, norman invasion german invasion britain history terence kearey memoirs publishing

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