A family saga that stretches from 1920 through to the early 1950s and covers the lives of a farming family from a remote area of Idaho. It has a slow start, as the author has chosen to record the life of Frank Langdon right from his time in the cradle, and as this is written from his own perspective the early pages seemed a bit surreal. No matter, it picks up quickly, and as the book extends to over six hundred pages there is plenty of time to get to know the family. Walter and Roseanna Langdon are Frank's parents and they married after Walter returned from fighting in France during the First World War. They came form a generation that did not question the need for hard work and discipline, and those values were impressed upon their children. Young Frank had a will of his own from a very early age and Walter sees it as his duty to take his belt to him on occasion, as was common practice at the time. Frank is only just a toddler when he has his first ...