# Smoke In The Lanes

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- Book: [Smoke In The Lanes](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-reeve/smoke-in-the-lanes) ([Smoke In The Lanes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-reeve/smoke-in-the-lanes.md))
- Authors: [Dominic Reeve](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominic-reeve)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-864-8
- Published: 2011-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close around them. Dominic Reeve describes his life among the Gypsies: the feuds and fairs, the joyful muddy squalor of an outdoor existence. He evokes an unforgettable cast of fireside characters - bold children, fierce matriarchs and dandyish villains in snap-brimmed hats - and tells of sharp deals done and rings run round country policemen, of love affairs, dances and open-air feasting. Smoke in the Lanes is the vivid, memorable record of a disappeared world.