The Story of Mr. Sommer

About this book

A boys village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father mother brother sister a house on a lake tree-climbing going to the races music lessons a bicycle a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste like a man possessed with his empty rucksack and his long odd-looking walking stick Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boys days.