The Village News: The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll [Hardcover ]

Over the course of the last century, the English village has often been declared dead or dying. In this volume, ex-BBC journalist Tom Fort sets out to discover whether these communities really are on their last legs. Fort approaches 6,000 years of history and his own experiences of rural life with wit, humour and entertaining observations, and concludes that the village as a model for communal living is simply too strong to fail.