Flood Shaw Clare Paperback
Flood Shaw Clare Paperback The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. Flood offers an eye-witness…
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Flood Shaw Clare Paperback
The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town.
Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms - bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as
Flood Shaw Clare Paperback