The Heart of the Valley

by Nigel Hinton

Constable and Company, 1991, ISBN 0094707502, black and white illustrations and drawings, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details sticker on synopsis page, age toned edges (see photographs)

“Set in the very English landscape of the green Kent country, The Heart of the Valley is a novel of the seasons in the years of the dunnock, the tiny hedge-sparrow, from the snowbound winter through the springtime of mating and nesting – ravaged by the intrusion of a young cuckoo in the nest as well as the thoughtlessness of humankind – to the summer day when the one surviving fledgling flies from the nest to make his own way in the world of the hedgerow...”