One Fine Day : A Journey Through English Time
by Marchant, Ian
England
Published 15/02/2024 by September Publishing in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 364 pages
126 x 198 x 24mm | 280gA time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page.
One day Ian Marchant decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant, had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. Diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With immersive detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on.
'A unique and exhilarating exploration of time and love ... elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving.'Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men
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