Racing the Wind

This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s. 'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight, ' she writes. The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.

Aceasta relatare puternica si frumos scrisa este memoriul Patricia Nolan care a trait intr-o comunitate minuscula din Cumbria si surprinde sfarsitul unei ere in anii 1950. „Cand a avut loc primul transplant de organe, cand computerele incepeau sa ne revolutioneze viata, iar televizorul sosea in sufrageriile Marii Britanii, in casa mea inca scufundam galeti intr-un parau pentru a face o ceasca de ceai si mergem la culcare la lumina lumanarilor ', scrie ea.