Great Meadow
A Biography, Abandoned book. Stumbled across in a second-hand bookstore, begun and finished that same day. Utterly enchanting. I could not help being reminded...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 207 pages
- ISBN: 9780670847587 / 670847585
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A wonderful, touching memoir of growing up in rural England between the great wars. Dirk Bogarde grew up to be a film star and matinee idol. Dirk Bogarde quite rightly sub-titles the book (on the cover) An Evocation. He remembers a time some 50 years earlier when he was a young boy on the Sussex Downs and the writing is exactly like that of a junior and captures the innocence of a time long gone and before the 20th century's second major conflict. Lally, the nanny, features... Stumbled across in a second-hand bookstore, begun and finished that same day. Utterly enchanting. I could not help being reminded of Laurie Lee's "Cider with Rosie" - another memoir of childhood by a man who has an incredible knack for writing events from his past clearly enough for an adult to understand, and yet still coming from...