- Publisher: September
- Year: 2023
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 349pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 220x146mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781912836994
- Product code: 536672
One Fine Day
New Hardback Illustrated
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While researching his family history, writer and broadcaster Ian Marchant learned of a diary kept from 1714 to 1728 by his ancestor Thomas Marchant, which includes records of life on the family farm. Ian’s elegiac memoir is a personal response, in the context of the politically unstable and illness-ridden early 2020s, to Thomas’ record of social history in a rural Sussex that was on the brink of industrialization.
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'Bloody marvellous' Nicholas Lezard, New Statesman
'Marchant conspires with his diarist ancestor to bring to life the eccentricities and the importance of the early eighteenth century. Elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving' Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly...
Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on.
'Marchant conspires with his diarist ancestor to bring to life the eccentricities and the importance of the early eighteenth century. Elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving' Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men
One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly...
Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on.
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