Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century - Craig Taylor

A moving and memorable portrait of English rural life - told through the voices of the people who experience it Return to Akenfield reverberates with the unforgettable voices of farmer and farm worker, priest, publican, headteacher and shopkeeper, immigrant, commuter and retiree. Speaking candidly about their lives a generation after Ronald Blythe's landmark book Akenfield, they reveal what English rural life is really like today.

Reviews: 

'A gentle, subtle and absorbing book - the most complex and supple account of modern life that I have ever read' - Robert Macfarlane

'I enjoyed it enormously' - William Trevor

'Touching, sometimes funny and always informative' - Simon Gray

'Oral history at its best: direct yet full of charm; at once sentimental and austere. Taylor joins an elite club of canny interviewers who are able to delineate entire worlds with a collage of individual voices' - Robert Winder, New Statesman

'Return to Akenfield is as fascinating, and relevant to its time. as Blythe's original' - Independent

'Gripping to read' - Mail on Sunday

'Fascinating and poignant - a portrait of rural society in a time of great change... A very moving read' - Sainsbury's Magazine

Publishers: Granta Books

ISBN: 9781862079236

Pages: 288

Weight: 188g

Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 17 mm