Early to Rise: A Suffolk Morning (First edition/Signed)

Barrett, Hugh; Barrett, Roderic [Illustrator]

ISBN 10: 0852362730 / ISBN 13: 9780852362730

Published by Faber & Faber, 1967

About this Item

A First edition book. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication (1967). Near fine book, in a very good DW. ""This is an authentic first-hand account of what it was to be working as a pupil on a Suffolk farm in the early nineteen-thirties.".

Seller Inventory # 00620

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early to Rise: A Suffolk Morning (First edition/Signed)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852362730
• ISBN 13: 9780852362730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Barrett, Roderic
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 7 ounces
• Signed: Signed

About this title

Synopsis

This is a first-hand account of life as a 16-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. In Suffolk, as elsewhere, the tractor had not yet displaced the horse, farms were full of labourers and the working day was long and hard. Hugh Barrett "lived in", received five shillings a week and learned to plough, build a stack, hoe beet and grind the pig food. His accounts of rabbits, rats and plagues of fleas are, like all the book, factually accurate and told with humour. The author sets out to convey "neither the bad old days nor the good old days" - just the year when he earned his first wage, the larks sang and the heavy tasks began to sort out the men from the boys.

Review

'Hugh Barrett's delightful autobiography has remained to myself and to many East Anglians one of the most truthful and unflinching views of our countryside.' Ronald Blythe