{"product_id":"9781447271987","title":"Country Moods and Tenses: A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook","description":". . . let the townsman say what he will, country life has more variety . . .'\u003cp\u003eA contemporary of Cecil Beaton, Siegfried Sassoon and Rex Whistler, Edith Olivier is best known for her first book, the novella, The Love Child but was the author of a variety of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as becoming the mayor of Wilton, Wiltshire, in 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this biographical memoir, written during the Second World War and subtitled 'A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook', Olivier takes the five grammatical moods - infinitive, imperative, indicative, subjunctive and conditional - and uses them to describe village and country life in her beloved Wiltshire as it was in 1941, the year of first publication. Covering a range of topics - from the folklore and traditions of the local area, to the weather and landscape itself - Country Moods and Tenses captures a moment and describes a world which has, in many ways, been lost to us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan (Bello)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49850260259056,"sku":"9781447271987","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781447271987","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}