This is going to be pretty vague.
- I read the book in the 1980s
- it was set in a multi-generational farming family in a bucolic “Sound of Music” like setting somewhere in Europe.
- It might have been set anywhere between 1900 to the 1960s.
- my impression was that the book was translated into English. This might be wrong
- Almost nothing happened in the book. It was the day to day workings of a idyllic farming family
- the only specific event that I recall that did take place in the book was a toddler going missing towards the end of the book. There were a few frantic pages until toddler was found asleep in a laundry basket. Or a haystack or something like that. That was the only tense thing in the book.
I loved this book and think of it all the time, even through all I recall is the gentle narrative where nothing much happened. It was so far from my usual type of books which where full of action and adventure.
So not much to go on, I know! And even if someone identifies it, I may not recognise it!
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