This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with t
he voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the
Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm
-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the lo
cal schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. P
roviding insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, A
kenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disapp
eared.
