Akenfield : Portrait of an English Village (Paperback)

from Smiley

Now classic study of English village life widely imitated as the residents of the real but purposefully misnamed Akenfield tell the author about daily village life.

from Poyma

Reading this seems very close to time travel. As close as we may get anyway. I read it as a teenager. It might be a bit romanticized? But I loved it.

from blackhornet

Ronald Blythe offers a miniaturist version of one of Studs Terkel's oral histories. Where Terkel takes the vast canvas of the United States to chart social attitudes and social changes, Blythe records the voices of a single English village (though Akenfield does not really exist and is an amalgam...

from Smiley

Now classic study of English village life widely imitated as the residents of the real but purposefully misnamed Akenfield tell the author about daily village life.

from RMMee

Enlightening for anyone with an interest in English local history, or for social history of the 20th century in rural England. Very readable, even if it does not cover the area you're immediately concerned with. Now outdated, but that in itself adds to its interest - this was soclal history in th...