Facing up to Father: The pleasures and pains of a Cotswold childhood

Farmers in my childhood were as anxious for a male heir as any Tudor monarch securing dynastic succession.A small Cotswold farm is the setting for a classic struggle of wills. Robert Worlock eccentric and demanding resolutely maintains the old ways determined above all to make his son into a farmer fit to take over the family acres. His son David is equally determined not to be bullied into something he neither wants nor likes. His childhood becomes a battleground: can he find a way to make his father love him without denying his right to determine his own life?Sometimes heart-rending sometimes amusing always elegantly written and deeply honest this account of a young man finding himself in the most difficult of circumstances deserves to take its place among the great childhood memoirs.