The Lost Village - Softcover

Askwith, Richard

 
9780753156865: The Lost Village

Synopsis

Book by Askwith, Richard

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Review

"A quest, both funny and sad, for the remnants of English country life" (Culture, The Sunday Times)

"a penetrating look at eh state of rural England in the early 21st century...unsentimental about the past and unpersuaded by the present's superficiality" (BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine)

"Thought-provoking and highly readable" (BBC Homes & Antiques)

"A gentle book, a search for something no longer there, as perhaps it never had been" (The Spectator)

"[Askwith] succeeds handsomely, ferreting out a remarkable array of old-timers...their disappearing world captured vividly" (Culture, The Sunday Times)

Book Description

A quest for a disappearing England; a dramatically readable search for the fading voices and patterns of a rural way of life

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