Book description
I>wrote: 'Social historians of the future will do well to consult
Mr. Croft-Cooke's in preference to certain more pretentious and less
objective memoirs of the period.'This Latest Volume of Autobiography
opens in 1934, in an isolated hamlet in the Cotswolds. Mr. Croft-Gooke
was 30 years old. He had published six novels, was earning 300 a year,
and considered himself 'an enviable young man'. He had a house with
peacocks on the lawn. He was happy. He decided however to revisit
Argentina, where he travelled extensively, lecturing and meeting old
friends and new. When he returned to his isolated hamlet, in fog and
snow, he was no longer happy, but restless and unsettled. He decided to
go back to Kent, where he was born. With charm and humour, Mr.
Croft-Cooke vividly recreates the places and people of his youth. As a
reviewer in
The Times Literary Supplement <
I>wrote: 'Social historians of the future will do well
to consult Mr. Croft-Cooke's in preference to certain more pretentious
and less objective memoirs of the period.'This Latest Volume of
Autobiography opens in 1934, in an isolated hamlet in the Cotswolds.
Mr. Croft-Gooke was 30 years old. He had published six novels, was
earning 300 a year, and considered himself 'an enviable young man'. He
had a house with peacocks on the lawn. He was happy. He decided
however to revisit Argentina, where he travelled extensively,
lecturing and meeting old friends and new. When he returned to his
isolated hamlet, in fog and snow, he was no longer happy, but restless
and unsettled. He decided to go back to Kent, where he was born. With
charm and humour, Mr. Croft-Cooke vividly recreates the places and
people of his youth. As a reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement
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