A Horse in the Country by Clive Aslet
Clive Aslet, editor of "Country Life", lived in London until January 2000. Then, he bought a small cottage in the country near where his horse was stabled at Naseby. This is what happened. Naseby is the site of the great battle that, some say, ended the English Civil War. It's also typical of a certain type of particularly English countryside: rolling green fields, farmland good and bad, copses of ancient woodland and an ugly dual carriageway. It is also the site of a modern civil war, between country folk steeped in the ways of country living, and newly de-mobbed urbanites in search of - what exactly? Clive Aslet went determined to find out and recorded the results of his year in the country: a blend of local anecdote, historic discovery, character and incident, set against England's unfolding drama of the countryside: what it is, who is to enjoy it, what it can and should tolerate. One man and his horse in an acutely observed comedy of rural manners: these are Clive Aslet's rural rides among England's truculent, turbulent countryfolk.
'A Horse in the Country offers a genuine social record, sensitively observed, of a village in the process of change -- its farming past eroded, its pub under threat, its teenagers bored and drunkThe endless round of fairs and flower shows, all delightfully reported by Aslet, is, as he remarks, partly a way of asserting a fragile identity.' Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph 'Delightful vignettes of modern country life...Aslet is an excellent diarist -- observant, witty and painfully honest, not least about his own low motives for the life-changing move. ' Daily Telegraph
Clive Aslet is the editor of Country Life. He is the author of three previous books, the last, The Story of Greenwich published by Fourth Estate in 1999.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841153766 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841153761 |
| Title | A Horse in the Country |
| Author | Clive Aslet |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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