The Levels

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Set in the Somerset Levels, a hidden world where lives Billy, by trade a basket maker, by inclination an innocent and regretful thinker whose days are spent with his mother who cannot help shouting, his father who cannot help getting into trouble, chickens who can't help dying and Dick, a childhood friend grown to adolescence but not maturity. Baskets are made and sold, eels caught, dogs lost and found, cider drunk and regretted and a haunted house discovered and explored. This idyll is broken by the arrival of Muriel and her mother and Billy, innocent of their urban ways, falls in love. The book weaves a deceptive and idiosyncratic magic as you are swept through the mysterious landscapes of Mid Somerset.