[Book] Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
The blurb for Rebecca Smith’s Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside sells it as a call to arms for the countryside’s abused, exploited and forgotten working classes, and its most memorable passages resound with all the get-off-our-land fury of a gamekeeper’s shotgun. “An Airbnb or a second home might bring in some money for the local shop, but it won’t bring more children to the scho..
