Period piece, paperback/gwen raverat

Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwins granddaughter.

It evokes a time when long summer days were disturbed by nothing noisier than a horse, and long winter nights were lit only by candle or gas lamp.

It is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society when it was small enough to be treated as an extension of the family.

As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yetthe observations of the small incidents of life, recorded here in delightful prose and beautiful illustrations, reveal an artists careful eye.