Alan Garner tells stories from his life (mainly his early life, before and during WWII) in Cheshire. He does so in a first person narrative style - a style absent nostalgia goggles or, really, any judgmental attitude, either. Perhaps of particular interest to fans of Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamon, exploring the real Alderley Edge as it does, but even for people who know nothing of Garner's previous work, this book offers an unsentimental glimpse of life as a child in rural England, during the time of the Blitz, rationing, evaccuees and gasmasks.