Review
"One of the great writers of the twentieth century."
--"Independent
""An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood,
but also to an England that has vanished."
--JB Priestly
"Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared.
It sings in the memory"
--"Sunday Times"
"It has got... a marvellous morning freshness...There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling"
--"Daily Mail"
"He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision"
--"Guardian"
"Lee was a poet whose deft passage into prose carried with it much of the rhythm and accuracy of the poet's language"
--Mignon Khargie, Art Director of Salon
--"Independent
""An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood,
but also to an England that has vanished."
--JB Priestly
"Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared.
It sings in the memory"
--"Sunday Times"
"It has got... a marvellous morning freshness...There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling"
--"Daily Mail"
"He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision"
--"Guardian"
"Lee was a poet whose deft passage into prose carried with it much of the rhythm and accuracy of the poet's language"
--Mignon Khargie, Art Director of Salon
Review
one of Susan Hampshire's `Six Best Books': `utterly charming'
