The second volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Donkey Boy is the story of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved as a baby by being fed with ass's milk. Set at the end of the nineteenth-century and beginning of the twentieth-century, it describes the young boy, something of a misfit, growing up at odds with his father in the opening years of the Edwa ...Full description
The second volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Donkey Boy is the story of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved as a baby by being fed with ass's milk. Set at the end of the nineteenth-century and beginning of the twentieth-century, it describes the young boy, something of a misfit, growing up at odds with his father in the opening years of the Edwardian era. The whole tone and feel of a vanished age are marvellously brought to life.