The Strange Family at Yorke's Hill

Résumé du livre

Katherine Yorke's account of childhood in Attlebridge, Norfolk, is more than another nostalgic look at the old days. She was burdened with "problem parents" -- a father who was too proud to take orders and a mother for whom "house-proudness" was the eighth deadly sin. They lived in primitive conditions in a railway carriage in the woods where Harry Yorke's many eccentricities could be freely exercised. These ranged from reciting poetry in the gravel-pit to building the "Wayfarers' Hostel", a wooden chapel of which he was both architect and priest. But, despite her sufferings, Katherine grew up with a deep love for the village; a fascinating story of triumph over adversity. Book jacket.