Dirk Bogarde reads a volume of autobiography which evokes an idyllic childhood in the 1930s. Life in a remote cottage on the Sussex Downs with his sister Elizabeth and their devoted nanny, Lally, provided the happiest days of Bogarde's childhood. At Great Meadow he discovered Mrs Wardle, the witch, scrambled down the legs of the giant Long Man (mysteriously cut deep into the hillside) and savoured snowy Christmases and golden summers. He recalls a lost world of oil lamps, harvest gleaning and privies, and a time of love and gentleness in the untroubled years before World War II.
- ISBN10 0670847585
- ISBN13 9780670847587
- Publish Date 1 October 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English