An Enchanted Place - Couverture rigide

Stedall, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1912480468 ISBN 13 : 9781912480463

Editeur : Hawthorn Press, 2021

Synopsis

The village of Hartfield, birthplace of Winnie the Pooh, is up in arms over a proposed bypass across the neighbouring Ashdown Forest. Under the leadership of the formidable Bunny, an Action Group is formed to oppose the plan. Bertie, the local poet and a beekeeper, together with his timid friend Peggy, are enrolled. So, too, is Sheila, a relative newcomer to the village from Australia and her new lodger, an actor fondly known as Bouncer; and even the gloomy, retired Major, who lives alone on the edge of the village, agrees to join the group. In fighting to protect this unique heritage from the bulldozers - a protest that the Major thinks is anyway doomed to failure - none of them are remotely aware of their similarities to A.A. Milne s original creations, not even the owlish Professor who chairs the local History Society and knows a thing or two. As the saga unfolds, questions about ecology, relationships, and about life itself start to emerge. Meanwhile could a very small inhabitant of the forest itself become a surprising ally?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Stedall has made documentary films for over fifty years, largely at the BBC. There he worked with John Betjeman, Laurens van der Post, Cecil Collins, Malcolm Muggeridge, Alan Bennett, Ron Eyre, Bernard Lovell, Theodore Roszak, E.F. Schumacher, Mark Tully and Ben Okri. He has also directed major biographies on Tolstoy, Gandhi, C.G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner. His film about a Camphill school in Scotland for children with special needs won a British Film Academy Award in 1968, and later work was nominated by BAFTA and the Broadcasting Press Guild. His book 'Where on Earth is Heaven?', published by Hawthorn Press in 2009, was singled out by John Cleese as 'the most annoying book I have ever read, as the author seems to have had a more interesting life than I've had.' His collection of poems, 'No Shore Too Far', published after the death of his wife in 2014, was described by Stephen Gawtry, Editor of, Watkins Mind Body Spirit, as 'beautiful, poignant and inspiring' .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hawthorn Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912480468
• ISBN 13: 9781912480463
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible