Author: Ronald Blythe
Narrator: David Holt
Unabridged: 16 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 10/27/2022
Genre: Nature - Regional
As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing.Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year, and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries.Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year's Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in the village church, Next to Nature invites us to witness a simple life richly lived. With gentle wit and keen observation Blythe meditates on his life and faith, on literature, art and history, and on our place in the landscape.It is a celebration of one of our greatest living writers, and an unforgettable ode to the English countryside.'One of the great prose stylists on the twentieth century . . . a modern Hazlitt' Mark Cocker'England's greatest living country writer' INDEPENDENT(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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