Anne Garnett
Caught from Time
A Country Diary of the 1920's

Caught from Time A Country Diary of the 1920's

Anne Garnett1999
Set in the 1920's, Caught from Time is highly evocative of the period. Anne Garnett's lively diary describes such delights as Edward putting on airs with his swell plus fours; old Gregory Norman the horse dealer ambling down hill with his pony shuffling behind him; Anne's mother identifying a nightingale and preferring gardening to paying afternoon calls; driving in bottom gear in a 12 HP Morris Cowley up the steep hills behind Lyme Regis; hops and oast-houses at Sittingbourne and the esplanade at Sheerness-on-Sea; arriving at Highgate by tram and visiting the Wembley Exhibition in London......
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