The Country Child

First published in 1931, this novel follows Susan Garland through childhood on a remote hill farm in Derbyshire. The year turns through haytime, harvest, snow, and the hiring of farm servants, while Susan moves between kitchen, fields, and a village school. Her parents, the labourers, and visiting relations fill a household bound to weather and livestock. Local fairs, church, and neighbouring farms supply the wider world. There is no single intrigue: the book is a seasonal record of a farm child's days, work, fears, and pleasures, written as fiction drawn from a late Victorian country upbringing rather than as a plot-driven family saga.

Cream endleaves printed with two of the artist’s illustrations. Purple coloured cloth binding cover blocked with a gilt blocked design. Brown slipcase.