Lifting the Latch: a Life on the Land (Oxford Paperbacks)

Lifting the Latch: a Life on the Land (Oxford Paperbacks) by Stewart, Sheila.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192821614.

For nearly eighty years Mont Abbot has lived and worked on the land near Enstone in Oxfordshire. In this extraordinary record of custom and change, constructed by Sheila Stewart from a series of taped conversations, Mont lifts the latch and takes us into a forgotten world of roly-poly puddings and street fairs, describing everything from his lost skills of carting and shepherding to the joys of singing in the church choir, and the day-to-day warmth and loyalty of a close-knit rural community. set to become a classic of the Flora Thomson mould. Oxford Times