Synopsis
This is a sequel to "The Bettesworth Book", and covers the period from 1896 to 1905, the year of Frederick Grover's (Bettesworth's) death. The book is an account of Grover's life as it came to an end and is a source of information on the economic and social life of an agricultural labourer at the end of the 19th century. Sturt's life of Grover is both a biography of a rural labourer written through his own words and language, and a study of a countryside before its mechanisation and suburbanisation in the twentieth century.