First published in 1946, following on from the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost foreign in its remoteness.Evoked with an unerringly accurate eye, contains a mixture of action and character, conveying the life of a country community in the halcyon period between the wars.Sentimental it is, but not so as to undermine the picture of a time when a life of landed gentry, squalid poverty and routine village intimacy co-existed within a familiar seasonal routine.