Thelwell Country

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Thelwell Country is the English countryside, only more so. His foxhunters and farmers, picnickers and gypsies, and his notoriously pony-struck children, are all representative of man in uneasy communion with nature. The people and animals Thelwell laughs at are real: he knows the countryside intimately. As H. F. Ellis of Punch says in his foreword, this is 'a recognisable world where bulls have mass and momentum, stone walls have knobbliness and texture, and combine harvesters squelch heavily through genuine mud'. Those who have delighted in Thelwell's cartoons in Punch and News Chronicle, or in the pages of his first book Angels on Horseback, will know what to expect. This is (with occasional excursions into country towns and even into Scotland) a hilarious initiation into the realities of rural England. This description is from the flap of the 1959 edition.