I travelled from King's Cross to Berwick-on-Tweed in a sleeper on the night express for no other reason than that I like to read in bed and, at the same time, feel that I am being rushed forward at a tremendous speed.
In this series of pen-portraits of England, commissioned by The Daily Mail in the 1930s, Victor Canning vividly conjures the pattern and colour of the 'great fabric of English Life' from Cumberland to Cornwall. His heartwarming, humorous and often irreverent observations of sleepy villages, pastoral scenes and busy industries provide a delightful insight into life between the wars.
- ISBN10 1306026547
- ISBN13 9781306026543
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 1 November 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Summersdale
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English