An interesting childhood biography of life in a working-class Cornish village. The author later became an idiosyncratic historian and writer about Shakespeare. One can empathise with the strong opinions he expresses in this book. It's not so easy to do this with some of the views he expresses some later books, which sometimes seem almost to be caricatures of the views voiced here. But this is a good book, said never to have been out of print since first published in 1942. ( )