A review by toniapeckover
The Country Child by Alison Uttley

5.0

Somewhere between a children's book and an adult's, Uttley has an unbelievable eye for detail and a sharp awareness. Her descriptions of old English farm life are so beautiful, and yet there is a layer of pain almost, underneath the poignant stories of the countryside, as the young girl wrestles against her knowing of the world and the religion that sweeps into the room in the skirts of her mother. There's a lot to love in these stories and a lot to remember.