Ospringe

by John Passfield

On a Saturday morning in May 1920, two of the Davies children – eight year-old Gertrude Violet Davies and her thirteen year-old brother, Claude Laverne Davies – leave their home at the Mill House, on Water Lane in Ospringe, Kent, and walk to 2 Middle Row, in the nearby market town of Faversham, where their grandad, Henry Kennett, lives. After polishing the firemen’s buttons, the three of them go for a walk, during which they share their cheerful chatter and think their private thoughts.

180 pages, Paperback

Published August 4, 2014

Reviews

[David Forsyth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Passfield weaves the voices of three family members into a tapestry of early twentieth-century life in the English village of Ospringe. The images inspired by the thoughts and words of his characters linger well after the book is closed.