Byron Rogers for years wrote the ‘Village Voice’ column in the Daily Telegraph, and this collection of articles on his life over the past 22 years in an English village is published because of the continued weekly requests of his readers.
Blakesley is not a picture-book village. Rogers found ‘a lost triangle of land where Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire meet, which the main roads circle and where no tourists come’; not at all unlike Ronald Blythe’s ‘Akenfield’ in Suffolk in the early Sixties.
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