Definitely has stayed with me. Takes some deep thought to understand. Many themes. Animals, mostly domestic, but a red kite and badger. Badger disappearing, geese, dogs, cats, sheep, cows. Old woman smell. Spare in expressed emotions. Stilted conversations. "death" in the form of the boy? (remind...
Probably a 3.5 but feeling a bit more generous. This book has a 'doomed' quality about it, although I didn't expect the details of the ending. Sparsely written with only a few characters, some of whom we spend most of the novel not knowing their name. The plot and characters kept me reading, I al...
The world stood still. There was hardly any noise, even the stream sounded as if the water was being sieved through gauze. She was working in the garden all the same. The first alder was now cut back completely and she had already lopped a couple of thick branches off the second. She set about it...