(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.
2.00 am: the world has become dream-like; only the sea and the moon are real. As I swim in the darkness, there's a… t.co/uXalQy9qjJ
1.30 am: the forgiving moon, the penitent sea, hiding and sheltering me
1 am: the naked moon, the silent sea, too beautiful to betray
