One Summer on the Cut

by G. Beard

Published 10 August 2007
It's 1964! The swinging Sixties, the Space Race, Beatlemania and Carnaby Street. And on England's forgotten canals a few boating families are still at work, their way of life hardly changed in a hundred years.Mike, fascinated by the canal and the boats, enters this strange and secret world. Making friends with Kit, a boy off the canal, Mike experiences the boaters' tough outdoor life and learns the lore of the waterways.Share Mike's exciting voyage of adventure with Kit and his family to its thrilling end. Discover the wonderful, secret, unique and now disappeared life of "The Cut".