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The Innocent Moon (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight)

The Innocent Moon (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight)

by Henry Williamson

Publisher Macdonald

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    Macdonald. 1961. First Edition; red cloth, back strip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy and bright dustwrapper. Ninth novel in the sequence 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'.

About the book

In volume 9 of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', it is the early 1920s and Phillip Maddison, out of the army, is determined to become a writer. When his career as a journalist founders, he retires to Devon on his motorcycle to share a cottage with a friend and devote himself to his work. BUt the arrangement does not succeed and before long Phillip finds himself alone. Meanwhile, his heart is assailed by what he takes for lovel but not until he has shed some illusions does he discover what he seeks, where last expected. Set against the London literary landscape as well as the superbly drawn Devon landscape, The Innocent Moon paints an unforgettable picture of its times.

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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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