Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey Through Western Lands
By Petroc Trelawny Weidenfeld & Nicolson £22
Petroc Trelawny’s popular breakfast show on Radio 3 provides a refuge from the Today programme. And one of its most endearing features – unlikely though it might sound – is the weather forecast. That’s because Trelawny doesn’t tell the listener what the temperature is going to be solely in major cities. We also hear that it’s going to be, say, 17° in Oban; 18° in Hartlepool and Ludlow; 22° in Bognor. Such names speak of a very Trelawnyan set of values: that nowhere is to be overlooked, that even the farthest- flung and most hidden away places are worthy of respect and equal treatment. And this is very much the spirit that infuses his literary debut – a vivid and often moving memoir-cum-history of his home county, the farthest-flung of all. Holidaymaking is what largely determines the idealised image people have of Cornwall. But to grow up there, as Trelawny...
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