![]() ![]() Bill died in 1990, and with his wife's death the land is to be donated to the Woodland Trust - a characteristically generous gift from an author whose unaffected love of the countryside shone through everything she wrote. The couple stayed on in a small house built in the valley they both loved. ![]() She also wrote about her husband's serious tractor accident and the decision eventually to sell the farm. Instead, she produced five more autobiographical books about Punchbowl Farm, describing animal life based on her own field notes and nocturnal photographs. With the author's own family grown up, this was a natural time to stop writing about her fictional children, themselves now at the threshold of adulthood. In her last children's book, A Wind is Blowing (1969), adolescence itself becomes the topic, with Tamzin realising that her feelings for Meryon Fairbrass go beyond the chumminess experienced in earlier stories. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ![]() Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs, and more. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. ![]() She was never a great writer but always a hard-working and honest one, much preferring gritty details of farming life to an unreal world of cops and robbers where child characters always know best. Buy The Summer of the Great Secret REPRINT by Edwards, Monica (ISBN: ) from Amazons Book Store. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. ![]()
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