Long Summer Day

Paul Craddock was still a young man when he was invalided out of the Boer War. And with a young man's enthusiasm he threw himself into the daunting task of restoring the neglected country estate of Shallowford, nestling in a secluded corner of Devon's Sorrel Valley. Shallowford seemed remote from the march of progress. But as the age of Victoria faded, to give way to that of Edward VII and George V, Paul Craddock was to learn that no corner of pastoral England, however, remote, could escape the challenge of the times. - Back cover.