Photograph by Ivan Rogers, the Upper Moutere artiste who resumes his solemn task of evoking the short story series every Saturday at ReadingRoom. I met her, for the first time, in spring. October ...

All Ronald Blythe had thought about, as he sploshed through the muddy fields of east Suffolk and the ditches running with yellow winter water, was the deep obscurity of the lives of rural labourers.