Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

<i>I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window and the evening star glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud. </i><i>It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart.</i><br><br>In the 1920s a young man grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had just returned decided to write about a happier time. A time of cricket matches and fox-hunting the busyness of village life and the shyness of youth.<br><br>That man was Siegfried Sassoon and this is his book. Originally published anonymously it went on to become Faber &amp; Faber's first bestseller. A classic depiction of pre-First World War Britain <i>Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man</i> tells two mirrored stories about a boy coming of age and a country losing its innocence.