Nightingale Wood

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Where Are They Now". Penguin Books. 2010. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013 . Retrieved 3 November 2013. There is also a stile leading into the wood from the public footpath on the western side of the wood off the A22. l. I am going to be writing a book review about ‘the Secret of Nightingale Wood’ The author of this book is Lucy Strange. While reading the book, I discovered words like ‘luncheon’ which might be an old fashioned word. The book is set in the 20 th century. Why I liked the book: I liked the book because I wanted to reed on and I wanted to know what would happen .The beginning was most interesting because it was all a mystery ,the little girl (Henrietta also known as henry) did not know why her dad was acting funny but it was because he was working abroad . This is a very accomplished social comedy set in the mid-1930s. It centers on Viola Wither, a twenty-one-year-old bit of fluff of a widow who has been forced for pecuniary reasons to leave London and go live with her stodgy in-laws in Essex. But Viola is such a slight and shallow character that she can’t really carry an entire novel, so Gibbons sagely widens her lens to focus on several of the women in the book, with little dips into the minds of the men. Viola’s sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, and a neighboring girl all get their own storylines.

Gardiner, Juliet (2011). The Thirties: An Intimate History. London: Harper Press. ISBN 978-0-00-731453-9.

Personality … different musicians evoke different responses in the nightingales. Photograph: Jiten Phukan/Getty Images Nightingales are migrant breeders, arriving in the UK from mid to late April. Males then sing to defend territories and attract mates until early June or so. Carrier, Dan (30 December 2015). "Two new books by Cold Comfort Farm author Stella Gibbons to be released". Camden New Journal. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016 . Retrieved 29 June 2016. Speaking of a waltz at a charity ball, Gibbons says, “It was an exciting melody, slow and dreamy and strong, with the swaying rhythm beating through it like the sea under showers of foam. . . . People glanced at one another and laughed, and waded into the ocean of music as the moonlit bathers had gone out into the silver-green sea . . . and the dancers dreamed that life was beautiful, in a world toppling with monster guns and violent death.” That description drove me straight to YouTube to listen to the melody (the description was better than the tune, sigh). The Woodland Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales (No. 294344) and in Scotland (No. SC038885). A non-profit-making company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 1982873.

Gibbons always considered herself a serious poet rather than a comic writer. [6] [49] She published two collections of poetry in the 1930s, the latter of which, The Lowland Verses (1938) contains "The Marriage of the Machine", an early lament on the effects of industrial pollution: "What oil, what poison lulls/Your wings and webs, my cormorants and gulls?" [50] Gibbons's single children's book was the fairy tale collection The Untidy Gnome, published in 1935 and dedicated to her only child Laura, who was born that year. [51] War years, 1939–1945 [ edit ] A very funny, very smart novel about upper-middle-class life in late 1930's England. Two families, separated by a woodland where The Hermit, the town drunk and squatter lives, come together in unlikely ways when Viola, the Withers' widowed daughter-in-law, arrives and chaos starts brewing. Lots of wit, some tongue-in-cheek moments and just enough sadness to make all of the lovely bits sting just a bit more. If you liked Cold Comfort Farm you will probably like this one. Truss, Lynne (2011). Introduction. Westwood, or, The Gentle Powers. By Gibbons, Stella. London: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-09-952872-2. Montefiore, Janet (May 2006). "Smith, Florence Margaret (Stevie)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. (subscription required)History: The history of this book is about how henry [ Henriette ] found out who caused the fire and how she did it, I enjoyed reading this book. The book is that interesting that I wish she will make a second story of The Secret Of Nightingale Wood. Village land was originally marsh, hence ‘Marston’, old English for ‘marsh farm’. As the marshes receded, people moved in to farm the fertile land. The remains of a medieval village can still be seen today, and evidence of iron age and roman remains are regularly found in the surrounding fields. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Vol II (fifthed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. p. 3103. ISBN 0-19-860575-7.