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Introduction

 

THE MAGIC APPLE TREE. A COUNTRY YEAR was first published 25 years ago by Hamish Hamilton. It sold over 35,000 copies in hardback, was a Penguin paperback, and when the rights reverted in 1998, became a special edition from Long Barn Books. It was cloth bound with gold-


blocking, in slip case, at £25 and I sold 13,000 copies.

 

It describes one year in an Oxfordshire village – a real one, to which Susan and her family moved in 1980, blended with ingredients from other country villages she had known.
It is a year in the countryside, the garden, the kitchen, the life of the village.