My Midsummer Morning. Alastair Humphreys

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      Copyright © Alastair Humphreys, 2019

      Extracts from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Beneficiaries of the Estate of Laurie Lee.

      Copyright © Laurie Lee 1969

      Here Comes the Sun, words and music by George Harrison © 1969 Harrisongs Limited. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

      Used by permission of Hal Leonard Europe Limited

      Cover and interior illustrations by Neil Gower

      All photographs © Alastair Humphreys

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      Source ISBN: 9780008331825

      Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008331832

      Version: 2019-05-20

       Dedication

      For Sarah

       ‘Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces.’

       Epigraph

       ‘You asked for it. It’s up to you now.’

       ‘But I was in Spain, and to the new life beginning.’

      Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning