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COUNTRY THINGS. By Alison Uttley. Faber and Faber (London). RS. UTTLEY had apparently a very happy childhood, and now a [ong time afterwards is happy to indulge in reminiscences of it. She lived in the
country in England, and her joys and pleasures (there appear to have been few if any unpleasant distractions) were the simple ones of childhood in an English village. This book is a collection of 12 essays on several of the activities of her life, not very different from those of other children: listening to stories by the fire, choosing Christmas cards, taking part in the children’s operetta. The author has a leisurely style; she dwells at length on. each incident, and the book passes easily from bedroom fires to school, the music lesson, creeks, marbles, and boulders, ond so home again. ae ' Punnicliffe Sa illustrated Country Things with some pen and ink drawings and woodcuts which will be disappointing to admirers of his earlier work, His drawings of children particularly fall below the standard of his wild life studies. It is a book for people who had a similar childhood and now yearn to have it back again; or it is possibly a book for those who have sickened of a hard materialistic world and who may find their escape from it here. For myself I cannot refrain from saying that I found it almost unbearably dull.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 16
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