The Road

This is deeply lovely. It's not perfect, and there are definitely moments when Hadley loses control of his prose and both he and you get a bit lost. But the attempt to truly and earnestly show the road as it has been throughout all of its history is such an ambitious one that I can forgive him those......more

i think the prose escaped the author at times. although this was full of interesting information, it became meandering and difficult to follow fairly quickly. i liked the idea behind this book but it’s execution was not particularly engaging for me.......more

The passion the author has for his subject shines throughout. I loved the book so much more than I expected, but would probably avoid getting into conversation with him at parties. 😅......more

In picking this book up at a local bookshop, I was reminded of Monty Python’s answer to the question “What did the Roman’s give (or leave) us” – roads. Whilst Christopher Hadley’s book makes no mention of this Python skit, ‘The Road’ tells us why the Python crew were correct. Hadley traces the path of......more

An interesting subject and I enjoyed it up to about half way. Then I became overwhelmed with the micro detail of the local landscape and although many of stories and folklore Hadley draws in are compelling, as a reader I ran out of steam! The notes and bibliography are great and I will be following......more