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Goldsboro Books

HWilliamson

How Dear is Life

How Dear is Life

by Henry Williamson

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Genre: Historical Fiction and General Fiction

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About the book

How Dear is Life follows the story of Phillip Maddison in the portentous months leading to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Now a clerk in the Moon Fire Office in London, Phillip decides to join the territorials, attracted by the money, by the camp near the sea, by the prospect of a new suit of clothes. As the last glorious summer slips away war seems unreal, but the old world is shortly to fall to pieces, never to return, as the British Expeditionary Force sets sail for France.

About the Author

Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson was an English author who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and Ruralism.


In 1927 Williamson published his most acclaimed book, Tarka the Otter; it won him the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, and made him enough money to pay for the wooden hut near Georgeham where he wrote many of his later books, often sitting alone there for 15 hours a day.


In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) is his account of his first years of farming there.

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