Left as an infant with a windmiller’s family on the open chalk plains of southern England, little Jan grows up minding pigs, nursing babies and drawing on every slate and wall he can find. Village schoolmasters, millers, gypsies and gentry pass through his boyhood as his strange gift for pictures slowly finds its way.
Ewing at her best, with a sharp ear for country speech and a tender eye for rural childhood. Download the free EPUB.