The magic apple tree: a country year
Language: English
Published by Hamilton, 1982
- Hardcover
- Used
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The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year by Susan Hill, published in hardback by Hamish Hamilton in 1982, this being the second impression of June that year. This is a memoir of the English countryside through the seasons, illustrated on the jacket with a rural scene featuring sheep and apple trees. The text is arranged by season, with occasional small decorative drawings scattered through the pages. There is a handwritten inscription on the front free endpaper, reading "Dear Auntie Bronwen, To the best of godmothers, love Christopher." The hardback boards are covered by the original dust jacket, which shows some wear and discolouration to the spine panel. The spine carries the author's name and a small tree device above the publisher's initials. The pages photographed show clean, legible printing on cream paper with no foxing visible.
Seller Inventory # F0066
- Title
- The magic apple tree: a country year
- Author
- Susan Hill
- Publisher
- Hamilton
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241107849
- ISBN 13
- 9780241107843
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This book (and one by Mary Taylor Simetti) is my default reading, when more sophisticated pleasures can't entice me. Beautifully written, this book is almost an elegy to English country living. It provides me - a Californian - with the vicarious feeling that I too am living in Moon Cottage in Barley. Hill provides recipes, observations, descriptions of people, surroundings, and customs of her village, perhaps as bulwark against the encroaching tide of modern life. She finds much to value in living in the "country" and there is much to value in this beautiful book. --Amazon
Susan Hill's study of the British countryside and the seasons of the year is wonderful. Reading it for the first time in the middle of a long winter a few years ago made me feel lucky to live here - despite the dark nights and the cold. Autumn has always been my favourite time of the year but the authors description of her life in the countryside made me look afresh at all seasons and gave me the urge to get out and about to enjoy. Susan Hill's descriptions of the countryside and country people are strongly reminiscent of Hardy and this book was an introduction to a wonderful author. If you like this you must try her other work - which is generally deeper and darker but just as beautiful. Comment | --Amazon
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