THE GYPSY CAMP

Ray Wills writes with a wide assortment of imagery and distinctive poetry throughout. It is a non fiction work largely based on a wealth of findings from Rays intensive research into Gypsy life with interviews and accounts from both travellers and their friends. He writes of the Travelling kind, not just as fortune tellers and hawkers, but more importantly he writes of their places of work. At the fairgrounds,brickyards,potteries,quarries and on the lavender fields or at the seasonal hop and fruit picking. The poor conditions of employment they endured and the hostility they encountered. He writes of their lives on the many hundreds of encampments scattered around the U.K throughout the 16th,17th 18th 19th and 20th centuries. A task which has not been previously undertaken by any writer.