A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.
Alexandra Harris is an acclaimed writer, literary critic and
cultural historian. She was educated at the University of Oxford
and the Courtauld Institute and is now Professor of English at the
University of Birmingham. Romantic Moderns: English Writers,
Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
(2010) won the Guardian First Book Award, a Somerset Maugham Award
and was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. Weatherland: Writers
and Artists Under English Skies (2015) was longlisted for the
Wainwright Prize, shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, adapted for
BBC Radio 4 and chosen ten times as a 'Book of the Year'. A Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature, Harris reviews for the Guardian
and other newspapers as well as judging literary prizes, writing
for exhibition catalogues, working with artists, lecturing widely
and speaking on the radio. www.alexandraharris.co.uk
'A joy to read.' Sunday Times
'Breathtaking.' Guardian
'Highly eclectic and original.' Sunday Telegraph
'Hugely ambitious.' TLS
'The wit and wonder of an exceptional literary work.' New
Statesman
'An inspiring guide.' Daily Mail
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