The End of an Era Robert Macfarlane

The End of an Era Robert MacfarlaneCharacterised by its warmth, wisdom and wit, Norah Hanson's poetry has earned her thousands of devoted readers over the past three decades. With not a word wasted, the poet takes in the landmarks both of her native Hull and life itself, finding joy in the company of family and friends but also in unhooking clasps, undoing buttons and donning pyjamas in an empty house (albeit one in which chores are never quite finished). In one perfectly staged scene

and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

the awakened mountain becomes a favoured place for car-borne lovers’ trysts -- as well as for the more public manifestations of the way her people responded to the disaster

When the paintings of Hanne become a hit

from the period between 1956 and 1966

And the Fates

Marzanna Bogumila Kielar

is this novel’s great achievement

hangovers and hauntings

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and her own girlhood formed by the turmoil of 20th Century Europe

" Amanda Dalton