The Well

Drawing on the author''s memories of her own childhood, Gene Kemp''s The Well is the account of Annie Sutton''s growing up in a Midlands village during the years before the Second World War. Peopled with Annie''s parents, her much-loved if sometimes bossy brother Tom, and three grown-up sisters, this hilarious yet perceptive book captures perfectly Annie''s child''s-eye view of the world.

It is yet more proof of Gene Kemp''s prodigious writing talent; as written in the Guardian, ''Gene Kemp is faultless on the mysterious, transient vocabulary of the young''.