The Magic Apple Tree A Country Year

A COUNTRY YEAR was first published 25 years ago by Hamish Hamilton. It sold over 35,000 copies in hardback, was a Penguin paperback, and when the rights reverted in 1998, became a special edition from Long Barn Books. It was cloth bound with gold-blocking, in slip case, at £25 and I sold 13,000 copies.It describes one year in an Oxfordshire village â__ a real one, to which Susan and her family moved in 1980, blended with ingredients from other country villages she had known.It is a year in the countryside, the garden, the kitchen, the life of the village.