The Time by the Sea

In The Time by the Sea Ronald Blythe - acclaimed author of Akenfield, a classic study of English village life - charts his life in and around Aldeburgh during the 1950s, the early years of Benjamin Britten's celebrated Festival. It is a tale of music and painting, creativity and landscape. It describes the first steps of an East Anglian journey, an intimate appraisal of a vivid and memorable time.