The Common Years

by Jilly Cooper

Book Overview

During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552146633
• ISBN13: 9780552146630
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Corgi
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.1"

Customer Reviews

The Common Years by Jilly Cooper

This is a wonderful diary/book! It brought back many memories for me. A very touching as well as funny book

Life in microcosm

I had never heard of this book, originally published in 1984, and didn't know what to expect. It begins, straightforwardly enough, as diary of dogwalks and notes on local flora. But somewhere along the line, the story spins out into drama, as unpredictable as only a diary can be. Apart from the soap opera of local lives, the clash between the beauty of the common and the dark society that inhabits it is a theme that all city park-goers have to face. A caveat to dog-lovers: dogs get hurt and die in the course of this book, and some of it is hard to read. In the end, though, I was left with a story that will be turning over in my mind for many years.