Publisher's Synopsis
Only half a lifetime away, and yet it might have been a different world. A small Yorkshire village in the 1930s and the local doctor's family whose literary and artistic flair was balanced by an earthiness peculiar to medical people. There were mills, smoking chimneys and dye-polluted streams, but also a garden with stretching lawns and luxuriant fruit trees. Above all, there was the whole family. There was a true warmth in those days in the grim woollen towns and villages, all-embracing in spite of a crusty exterior. It was home - it was genuine. In a word - it was Yorkshire.
