The Magic Apple Tree By Susan Hill

The Magic Apple Tree By Susan Hill.

ANCIENT AND GNARLED,

THE MAGIC APPLE TREE SYMBOLIZES

THE ENDURING SPIRIT OF

SUSAN HILL'S VILLAGE OF BARLEY

Looking out from Moon Cottage, she records the sights and smells, the people, gardens, animals, births, festivals and deaths that mark the changing seasons in the small Oxfordshire community.

Painting the village year in glowing colours and loving detail, Susan Hill provides us with a country book to learn from and enjoy alongside those of Richard Jefferies, Francis Kilvert and Flora Thompson.

'À countryside book of great distinction'- Daily Mail

Her enthusiasm is infectious' - Daily Ielegraph

Pungent, commonsensical and sometimes touching...

I liked best her descriptions of woods, fields, ditches, weather, plants and creatures... It is a village book which breeds its own moment, its own origin' - Ronald Blythe With engravings by John Lawrence

The cover shows 'The Magic Apple Tree' by Samuel Palmer, reproduced by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge