This looks like a nice nostalgic read with it's watercolour pictures on the cover, but don't let yourself get too comfortable as life in the countryside between the wars was not all pretty flowers and hayricks. It starts off quietly as you get to know the characters, but before long it becomes impossible to put down, and I got stuck in that bind of racing through the final pages but not wanting the story to come to an end. The author was clearly born long after the period of English history that she writes about, but my goodness, she captures the mood and the feel of what it must have been like to be a fourteen year old girl at that time. I am in my mid sixties, and had relatives living in Suffolk when I was a child and my elderly aunts were living their lives in a way that had seen little change since the turn of the century. I remember the tiny cottage rooms with no indoor plumbing and jugs with basins set out in the bedrooms to allow people to wash before bed....