Synopses & Reviews
Ronald Blythe is an English editor and writer, born and raised in rural Suffolk. He is best known for Akenfield, and has published several novels and essay collections, most recently At the Yeoman’s House. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, which awarded him the 2006 Benson Medal for lifelong achievement, and has been the president of the John Clare Society since its founding. He lives at Bottengoms Farm in Suffolk.
Synopsis
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpieceof twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech."