I’ve just stumbled across this thread - it’s a delight of nostalgia! ❤️ I recently read Akenfeld, after Ronald Blyth’s deathearlier this year. My goodness, people lived hard lives, I don’t think anyone would want to go back to that.
Another recent read is the Go-Between by LP Hartley which also conjures up halcyon Edwardian days of summer. Until the end.
My DD’s and I often watched The Darling Buds of May when we were living abroad, before the days of streamed TV. They loved it and so did I, as the area it’s set in was an old haunt of ours.