The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

Bibliography
The Flax of Dream - a tetralogy following the life of Willie Maddison
The Beautiful Years (1921)
Dandelion Days (1922)
The Dream of Fair Women (1924)
The Pathway (1928)

A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - a semi-autobiographical series of 15 books following the life of Phillip Maddison from birth till the early 1950s. Lawrence. Fordingbridge Hants Castle Hill Press.

He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.