Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley
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The Importance of Love of Country
The character John is a representation of the tradition of English radicalism. He's another way to be proud of being British. I immersed myself in farming memoirs from the time. Today we have a boom in nature writing that's been going on for 10 years or more. And back then, the same thing was happening but it was farming memoirs and you would be convinced that every farmer who was farming in the 1930s was writing a book.
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