Buckler's Hard and the Eliots

The Bird in the Tree, the first of the Eliot Chronicles

Two books about the Hard: The Bird in the Tree and The Valley of Song

“To David today (the Hard) was alive with past activity. He could picture the prosperous town that once stood here, the shipyard, the slipways, the forges and the shops. He could hear the ring of hammer on anvil and the sound of the saws that fashioned the Forest oak trees into timber …