As It Was in the Beginning Format:Paperback

As It Was in the Beginning Format:PaperbackOne of the most audacious of all modernist novels. Millicent, Lady Cheseborough fifty, widowed, rejected by her much younger lover lies dying in a nursing home, the victim of a stroke. As she nears death, her thoughts go back through her life in a desperate attempt to find its meaning. With great stylistic daring, Gertrude Trevelyan recreates the stream of consciousness in its most realistic and moving form. As It Was in the Beginning is perhaps

never-before-read Wild Book

illustrated essay by Russian Arabist Viktoria Zorytovskaya

Emily Harrison

Extract from the Editorial to Diaspora

translated by Peter Oram

at times haunting

loss and grief as intimate reflections of love

His elder brother has died suddenly leaving no heir

ecological and cultural fable as a young girl and her father on a small island are confronted by the reality and cruelty of global market forces with the privatisation of their traditional water supply

can only be reached by crossing a terrible sea”

the countless offshoots and interpretations across media

With an Afterword by Philip Casey