THE COUNTRY CHILD is a semi-autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country before the First World War. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle and hear the owls calling at dusk. She writes about the small intense joys and sorrows of life on a small farm: the fun of haymaking, the sadness of favourite animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen.
Also in A Puffin Book: A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley
- ISBN10 0141361956
- ISBN13 9780141361956
- Publish Date 7 July 2016 (first published December 1955)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 February 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Puffin
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 432
- Language English