Rebecca Solnit 2013 The Faraway Nearby (Granta via audiobook)

To read hard copy will be differently moving, lines running loose, but the audiobook, the author precisely reading her own work, has me reeling. The story too, has a dangerously sharp edge, like that ‘fairytale inheritance’, reeking apricots, ripening to death.

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Sue Hall Pyke

Writer, dreamer, co-learner