Beskrivelse
A collection of humorous short stories from an age long gone and in most cases surrounding the rich and well off – some of the better stories use characters from all classes and these are more understandable and tend to be a bit more down to earth. The play of children and young people on the staid and conventional runs deep through the book and displays an England that had somehow become caught in an Edwardian age but these stories are an attempt to show how absurd many of the conventions and habits were. They are funny and have surprising twists but after a while you can tend to guess the outcome bu then the next story will have a striking twist that is not foreseen. The language and grammar are first class with many terms that would confuse a younger urban generation. Coming from a rural agricultural background the precision and terminology of what makes country living are scattered with great accuracy and humour through the stories.
