Publisher's Synopsis
"A pennyworth of winegums went a long way in the spring. They would last me till I reached World's End or the sandy-bottomed hollows of the Cliffe." The year is 1939, the year of the war. The place is Little Ness, a sandstone village in the shadow of the Shropshire hills. Peter Davies was then a boy of eleven, living with his family on their farm in the heart of the village. This is a wonderfully poetic account of the year when he was transplanted into a small-town grammar school, on the very day war began. Peter paints an evocative picture of a rural community where life was regulated by the farming seasons and the church.
