
Silver Ley was first published in 1931, it is the second volume in Adrian Bell's classic rural trilogy, the other volumes being Corduroy and The Cherry Tree. In Silver Ley the author moves from being a farm apprentice to a farm owner.



These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk countryside between the two World Wars. The lasting fascination of all three books lies in the contrast between the natural hopefulness of their young author and the economic hopelessness...