The Country Child by Alison Uttley #joyce who made the same journey

who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist

Armed with new insights into money and wealth

Ella is barely able to rescue them from the house before she collapses into the snow

Richly illustrated with magical artwork by Rovina Cai (@rovinacai)

The Country Child by Alison Uttley #joyce who made the same journeyTHE COUNTRY CHILD is a semi autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country before the First World War. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle and hear the owls calling at dusk. She writes about the small intense joys and sorrows of life on a small farm: the fun of haymaking, the sadness of favourite animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness