Think this was an impulse purchase from somewhere, maybe based on the beautiful cover, a detail from 'Heading Home from Modbury', a painting by Henrietta Hoyer Millar. There were lots of illustration, another of which 'the Bridle Path, Cookham' by Stanley Spencer I had never seen before. It was really lovely and I've been looking at prints of it already. some of the other illustrations were a bit cheesy, lots of Victorian sentimentality with golden-haired children in smocks hanging around stiles. The book itself was written in the 70s, and not what I was expecting. Maybe I've become used to the modern trend for writing about one's own experiences in nature where you go on a journey with the author, but this was one step removed - lots of references to poems, literature and paintings about footpaths and country lanes. I never really got immersed into it as a result, I'm used to being mollycoddled and guided into these things apparently!
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