(Fourth Estate, 2001).
Netley’s vast Victorian hospital stood for one hundred years of history, its traumatic, gothic story echoing out through personal memoir and collective memory.
‘A book that has everything a passionate reader could want – a subject that far transcends the trivial pursuits of contemporary writing, concerns both public and private, astonishing details, stylistic precision, a unique sense of time and place, and a great depth of vision.’
W.G. Sebald, Sunday Telegraph.
the sea is a thing with feathers apologies to @maxjohnporter t.co/qEJu40o61O
2.30 am: swimming on an Eastertide, under a passover moon, the spring sea still so dark and cold.
this is my next favourite book this spring, following @Dan_Zep 's - you can't get closer to the sea here; it's in y… t.co/IIaiJ90VkL
@jeremy_millar_1 @LauraCummingArt I think of the cold flax oil that made these things, made their sharp sheen