Encounters with England’s forgotten rural past
First published on the eve of the great financial crash, and now re-issued after nearly two decades, The Lost Village is the haunting tale of a search for survivors of a forgotten rural England.
Elegiac and thought-provoking, it records a series of encounters with real country people: villagers whose lives are rooted in the landscape and the past.
Such folk are now more marginalised than ever, scorned by the urban rich who have displaced them. Yet their voices deserve to be heard. And, as the comfortable certainties of our post-war world unravel, they have profound and urgent lessons to teach us.
What the critics said:
“Glorious evocation” The Daily Mail
“You really must read The Lost Village: a quest, both funny and sad, for the remnants of English country life … ” The Sunday Times
“Perceptive, nuanced, restlessly melancholic” The Independent
“He writes beautifully” The Guardian
“A brilliant chronicle of ancient and modern England” Saga
“Thought-provoking and highly readable” BBC Homes & Antiques
Read a review:
Read Christopher Hart’s review of The Lost Village in The Sunday Times
Awards:
Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the 2009 Saga Grown-up Awards.
Read about the background:
Read a feature by the author in The Independent, introducing the book.
Buy:
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Buy the audiobook from Audible here.
