Talking to the Neighbours: Conversations in a Country Parish

These seasonal reflections weave together literature, poetry, biography, botany, nature and scripture to offer incisive comment on contemporary life. Rooted in the locality where Ronald Blythe lives and works, here is a world that we all recognize immediately as being in the places where we ourselves live. They resonate richly with the pattern of the natural and the liturgical year, and provide a profound and elegant commentary on the way that we experience the sacred through the everyday. Many began as addresses given in local churches by Ronald Blythe in his capacity as Reader in the Church of England.