Plums to Persia

Plums to Persia
By Patrick Campbell
 
ISBN: 978-1-912078-09-7
 
This book revisits a South Worcestershire childhood almost seventy years on. The autobiographical elements cover the period during and immediately after the Second World War – the formative years in the writer’s life.
 
To provide context, there are initial forays into local history, in particular that of Upton-upon-Severn. The account goes on to chart the time-honoured, if sometimes quirky, activities of rural existence: the focal points of infant school (where his mother was head teacher) and church, and the quotidian practices, seasonal happenings and annual rituals of life in a village. While some of this material is loosely factual and documentary, the general style is one of personal reminiscence, of memories larded with anecdotes and stories of