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“I was brought up as a boy in one of the home counties, in a district which I still think the loveliest in England.”

These words of E.M. Forster, broadcast in 1946, when his childhood home seemed threatened with destruction, marked the beginning of the long struggle to preseve the countryside which was later to bear his name – the Forster Country.

The few square miles of gentle north Hertfordshire farmland surrounding Rooks Nest House, which was the inspiration for Forster’s novel Howards End, have attained a significance out of all proportion to their size, as Margaret Ashby explains in this evocative book.

The story of Forster Country reaches back, over three centuries, when the Howard Family farmed there, and forward, to the life and work of Elizabeth Poston, composer and broadcaster. The book centres on Forster’s boyhood at Rooks Nest, from 1883 – 1893. An only child living with his widowed mother in a country house on the edge of a provincial town, he turned for companionship to the domestic servants, and for adventure to the fields and woods around his home.

Hardback: 175 pages
Publisher: Flaunden Press, 1991
ISBN: 0951824201
Product Dimensions: 1.7 x 19.5 x 25.6 cm