TALES FROM A STONE COTTAGE. By Aly Wilks. Illustrated by Celia Witchard.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp160. Colour cartoon illustrations by Celia Witchard, colour photographs. Grey cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"Hilarious stories of village life." Nicely illustrated in full colour - a very attractive collection of tales and anecdotes about the countryside. "Rural life is about neighbours; love them or loath them, you can't ignore them. Needing human company I gravitated to the post office and shop, run by Anna, an angel in human form sent among us to do good. She introduced me to everybody in the shop. I was inspected and, after a thoughtful pause, somebody asked me if I'd lost a ferret. I hadn't. In fact, I didn't have a ferret to lose. But I was so pleased to be accepted as the sort of person who might have lost a ferret."