A review by soniapage
English Creek by Ivan Doig

3.0

After a good start, this book sort of sags in the middle then picks up at the end. I was drawn to the story of a young boy growing up in Montana with his Forest Ranger father since I'm married to a forester. The accounts of the Forest Service life in the 1930's was very interesting, especially the forest fires. The middle of the book, however, recounts Jick's unremarkable "town life" doings which I found amusing but left me wondering when things would pick up again.