"Country Living" Magazine

Whether by outstanding writers such as Maeve Binchy, and Joanna Trollope, or by popular figures like Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley, these "Country Childhood" columns are all fascinating in the way that they provide us with insights into each person's character and later career. There is also great variety: cook Nigel Slater, for example, talks of how he disliked moving to the country when he was young, while the geographical range stretches from Scotland to Cornwall and Ireland to East Anglia. This is a hugely enjoyable audiobook, which also gives us a wonderfully evocative record of twentieth century country life.