This collection of humorous short essays combines affection for the timeless values of community life in an English village with a nostalgia for aspects that are quietly slipping away. Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in modern English rural community life, wherever they live. Written between 1991 and 2015, most of these essays first appeared in the Hawkesbury Parish News, the community newspaper for Hawkesbury Upton, the Cotswold village in which Debbie Young has lived since 1991.
If you enjoy this book, you may also like Debbie Young's gentle mystery novels and set in the fictitious Cotswold parish Wendlebury Barrow - the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries, starting with Best Murder in Show, and the Staffroom at St Bride's School series, which begins with Secrets at St Bride's. Also available are her quick read series of single short novellas, Tales from Wendlebury Barrow, starting with The Natter of Knitters.