‘I just wanted to tell you all how very much I have enjoyed Adrian Bell’s Corduroy. It is a magical description of a vanished time, very evocative in so many ways and has kept me engrossed far beyond my usual lights out time! We are surrounded here in Lincolnshire by modern farming – huge machines and very few farm workers – it could hardly be more different, except perhaps when the hunt streams by!’ M. Sandberg, Lincolnshire