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THE DEAF DOCTOR

Marian Eason

ISBN 978-1-916668-89-8

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Publication: 30 MAY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668898
Price: £10.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 368 pp
Thema: DND Memoir

Author location: Warwickshire
Book location: Cotswolds

• A memoir combining an autobiographical
account of the author’s childhood and a
biographical depiction of her father’s move to
farming following a period as a doctor during
World War II.
• Primarily set on a farm in North Cotswolds,
covering a period from the 1920s to the end of
the 1950s.
• The author has ridden horses competitively and
followed hounds all her life and currently lives in
Warwickshire.
Marian Eason grew up on her family’s Gloucestershire farm from the
age of one and now lives on another family farm in Warwickshire. Covering the period between the two world wars, the Second
Called to the Bar in 1971, as an equestrian journalist she has World War itself and the fifteen years that followed, The Deaf
researched numerous works including The Master of the Horse, Doctor focuses primarily on Marian’s formative years, which
racing books by Ivor Herbert and George Rainbird’s An Illustrated coincided with farming in the 1950s: the last decade of
Guide to Wine. Her commissioned The Best Little Hunt in England traditional mixed farming before the use of chemicals and
more efficient mechanisation. Wage increases, monoculture
was published in 2019. She has and increased efficiency meant that fewer people worked on
ridden horses competitively and followed hounds all her life. the land by the 1960s, fundamentally changing the texture of
everyday life.

Country sports were the chief pastime of rural communities
then when most still adhered to the seasons and there was a
slower pace of life with few distractions.
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E: enquiries@starbooksales.com his pre-war way of life and his experiences in the
Far East as an army doctor during the Second World War,
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Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk serving as a prelude. Depicting the social history of an age in
0116 279 2299 which tradition still held considerable sway while powerful
undercurrents were working in the opposite direction.
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without notice. 08/12/2023 The ’50s were in many ways an extension of the ’30s way of
life, until they weren’t.