A Horseman Riding By: A Long Summer Day and Post of Honour
by R. F. Delderfield
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Spanning six decades, these three novels follow a man and his family as they struggle to adapt to life in a new world. From the death of Queen Victoria through the swinging sixties, this acclaimed saga is an unforgettable story of a farming family and a vanishing way of life. Long Summer Day: Lt. Paul Craddock returns to England after the Boer War to resume civilian life. His father has died, leaving Craddock heir to a scrap-metal business. But instead of continuing the family business, he show more purchases an auctioned-off thirteen-hundred-acre estate, Shallowford, where he will be changed by his love for two women: fiercely independent Grace Lovell and lovely, demure Claire Derwent. Post of Honour: Through hard work and love of the land, Craddock has transformed his sprawling estate and enjoys a peaceful country life with his wife and three children. But war has begun its inevitable march across England, and this remote corner of Devon cannot escape its destruction. As the Great War ends and another threatens to erupt, Craddock's faith and the strength he derives from his family must sustain him and his village through trying, tumultuous times. The Green Gauntlet: Though Craddock's village has endured despite the sorrows of war, he has new perils to face. Emerging property laws threaten his livelihood, dividing his family over the future of his beloved Shallowford. For his sons and daughter, the fifties and sixties will be a time of discovery and change that will resonate in the lives of their own children. show lessTags
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This is the second volume of the story of the Craddock family and their life as caretakers of a large estate in Devon between World War I and the beginning of World War II. In this volume the head of the family, Paul Cradock goes to war, settles domestic disputes among his tenants and keeps a tacky property developer at bay. The children all get married and go off to their own lives and his wife, Claire has a change of life baby. The book ends just as The Battle of Britain is about to begin.
There really is no climax or resolution in this book. It's as i the author just realized he needed to end this volume because he had a contract to write a third book.
There really is no climax or resolution in this book. It's as i the author just realized he needed to end this volume because he had a contract to write a third book.
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R. F. Delderfield also wrote the novels God Is an Englishman and Theirs Was the Kingdom in the saga of the Swann family
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- Canonical title
- A Horseman Riding By: A Long Summer Day and Post of Honour
- Related movies
- A Horseman Riding By (1978 | IMDb)
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .D37618 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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