- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407068701
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
The Dangerous Edge Of Things
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407068701
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Evokes the world of her childhood with exceptional clarity, tenderness and precision.
Sunday Telegraph
Without the slightest sentimentality, this magical book describes what was lost: a closeness to the natural world, a life tied to the seasons, and memories of incredible richness and texture.
Evening Standard
Enchanting memoir . . . Lycett Green makes the beautiful countryside throughout the seasons as real as the robust villagers.
Sunday Times
Executed with accomplishment and brio. Lycett Green may be practised, but there's a delightful freshness here, along with humour, empathy and an unexpected sense of menace.
Daily Telegraph
'Touching tale of a year in the life of a post-war childhood ... Poignant'
Sunday Express
'A beautiful book ... It anchors the author's standing as the finest writer of our time on the English countryside ... What she brings to this lyrical story is a touch of magic ... Original and enchanting'
Country Life
A sort of Cider with Rosie . . . her writing oozes nostalgia, affection and a passion for the English countryside.
Daily Mail
'This memoir with novelised flourishes is enchanting, a delight from beginning to end ... It's rare for a book to have both charm and menace but this one does'
Vogue
'Lycett Green's eye is so good and her way with words so felicitous ... Beautifully done ... A book of great charm'
Spectator
'An intriguing narrative carried along by a beautifully detailed take on a small English village in 1949'
Woman and Home
This volume of memoirs confirms her as a great chronicler of rural England ... As ever, Lycett Green proves herself effortlessly adept at capturing a bygone age and, while the book is in no way about her father, the occasional glimpses of him as a private rather than a public man are fascinating.'
Observer