312p PERSEPHONE BOOKS ISBN 1903155428
AFTERWORD BY JULIET GARDINER

'If anyone asked me to describe life in post-war Britain, ' commented Sarah Crompton in the Daily Telegraph, 'I would suggest they read The Village, a 1952 story of lovers divided by class that tells you more about the subtle gradations of life in the Home Counties and the cataclysmic changes wrought by war and a Labour government than any number of plays by JB Priestley or more famous tomes by Greene and Waugh. ' And Charlotte Moore wrote in the Spectator: 'This traditionally organised novel of English village life is more than a gentle dig at quirky English behaviour. It is a precise, evocative but unsentimental account of a period of transition; it's an absorbing novel, and a useful piece of social history.'

The endpaper is a printed cotton designed by Margaret Simeon for John Lewis in 1946.In her review Charlotte Moore praised this 'lovely Persephone reprint with a pearly grey cover and endpapers like the maids' bedroom curtains in a Victorian country house.'

The homecoming of Private Bill Martin from Burma, winter 1945-6, p196 We'll Meet Again (1984) edited by Robert Kee