Xandra bingley biography of barack

Don't be put off, as I was, by the slightly fey title.

This is a charming autobiography of the childhood years of Xandra Bingley. She was privileged by birth, certainly, but it didn't prevent her early childhood, during the war, from being tough. Her mother, though scarcely raised to such a life, gave herself up to running a large farm since her husband was away at the war.

She milked, cared for animals, from cattle to her always beloved horses, did all the practical jobs of which there's never any shortage on a farm, and managed the landgirls and the accounts.

A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child.

Xandra Bingley was born in on a farm in the Cotswolds.

Xandra Bingley has had such an eventful life that she was too busy to write about it.

' -- Xandra Bingley, author of Bertie, May and Mrs Fish 'Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength.

'Winning the RSL Jerwood Poetry Award is an honour.

Xandra, a fairly isolated child, was simply expected to muck in, and muck in she did.

Her father appears part way through the book as a jovial and somewhat eccentric product of his rather blinkered upbringing. It's fair to say he'd never have voted a Labour government in.

Xandra Bingley's observations, her feeling for people and places and animals a