A review by andrewspink
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was absolutely fascinating.  I expected it to be a little dry, but nothing could be further from the truth. The verbatim accounts of what average country folk in the 60s had to say about their lives in the previous decades was really interesting and compellingly told. "You may not have noticed but telly plays are full of wonderful ornamental ironwork", from the blacksmith. "Pigs are interesting people", from the pig farmer. Incest is apparently no problem from the upper class magistrate.  
A wonderful book, I'm really glad I read it.