A Peewit in Wartime

The village of Hardington Mandeville lies at the very southern edge of Somerset, its parish boundary being also the county boundary with Dorset. A lad, Gordon Rendell, three years old when the war started in 1939, experienced the following six years with a sharp intensity. The history of life in Hardington Mandeville in the 1940s might have been lost for ever if its events had not been stamped upon the mind of an enquiring little boy who, eighty years later, has brought the characters back to tell their own eccentric stories in the rhythmic dialect of Somerset. The stories are not only a history - they are great fun.