Next to Nature'One of the great prose stylists on the twentieth century . . . a modern Hazlitt' Mark Cocker 'England's greatest living country writer' INDEPENDENT Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the

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