The Nearest Way Home

Fielding, Daphne

ISBN 10: 041327490X / ISBN 13: 9780413274908

Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1970

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Dust jacket in protective sleeve, uinclipped. Neat inscription on ffep. Frontis plate. 275 pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 141167

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Nearest Way Home

Publisher: Eyre and Spottiswoode, London

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Photographs

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Daphne Fielding describes the changing landscape of her life with intense gusto and infectious enjoyment. A recurring theme through the story is the Fielding "menagerie" which includes Pekingese dogs, owls, hedgehogs, a donkey, a chameleon, a parrot who swears in three languages, and a budgerigar whose favorite utterance is "Dirty Bugger Daph". A cat enters their lives 'his eyes twin orbs of chrysoprase flecked with yellow lichen' . . . They save a pigeon from the stew-pot, give it the run of the house and it learns to fly around with sprigs of olive branch in his beak. The Nearest Way Home will delight all of her many readers!