A nostalgic roam through childhood memories of life in the countryside by some of our most influential writers, actors, journalists and film celebrities; specially selected from "Country Living" magazine's much-loved "Country Childhood" series.
Discover the poignancy of food writer Nigel Slater's recollection of his adolescence in a Seventeenth-Century cottage in Worcestershire; writer Laurie Lee's lyrical memories of childhood games and rituals in his Gloucestershire village; actress Joanna Lumley's passion for the rhythm and rules of the countryside and John Nettles' love for the ubiquitous, thick white clay; and beautiful turquoise sea of his Cornish childhood home.
Each one of the fifty different contributions evocatively captures an individual sense of time, place and personality. Together they provide a unique historical picture of country life across the British Isles - from the vast skies of Suffolk to the rugged seascape of Cornwall; the romance of an isolated Irish village to the fertile islands of Scotland.
