A Suffolk village in the late 1960s, in the words of its farm workers, blacksmith, vicar, schoolteacher and gravedigger. Ronald Blythe’s book is a classic of English rural life, and a record of a world just as it was ending.

Akenfield
Portrait of an English Village
Ronald Blythe
Paperback · Penguin · 2005
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