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    Village Hours
    Village Hours
    Village Hours
    Ebook166 pages2 hours

    Village Hours

    By Ronald Blythe

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    Britain’s best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and commuters. For all the changes in the contemporary countryside, timeless qualities remain and both are captured here with a poet’s understanding and imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanterbury Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781848257276
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