The Lost Village In Search of a Forgotten Rural England

"A quest, both funny and sad, for the remnants of English country life" Culture, The Sunday Times 20080413 "a penetrating look at eh state of rural England in the early 21st century...unsentimental about the past and unpersuaded by the present's superficiality" BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine 20080610 "Thought-provoking and highly readable" BBC Homes & Antiques 20080610 "A gentle book, a search for something no longer there, as perhaps it never had been" The Spectator 20080510 "[Askwith] succeeds handsomely, ferreting out a remarkable array of old-timers...their disappearing world captured vividly" Culture, The Sunday Times 20080406