These silent mansions : a life in graveyards
Sprackland, Jean2021
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Graveyards are oases: places of escape, of peace and reflection. Each is a garden or nature reserve, but also a site of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch: a liminal place, at the border of the living world. Jean Sprackland's prize-winning book, 'Strands', brought to life the histories of objects found on a beach. 'These Silent Mansions' is also an uncovering of individual stories: vivid, touching and intimately told. Sprackland travels back through her own life, revisiting graveyards in the ordinary towns and cities she has called home, seeking out others who lived, died and are remembered or forgotten there. With her poet's eye, she makes chance discoveries among the stones and inscriptions: a notorious smuggler tucked up in a sleepy churchyard; ancient coins unearthed on a secret burial ground; a slow-worm basking in the sun.
Main title:
These silent mansions : a life in graveyards / Jean Sprackland.
Author:
Sprackland, Jean, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2021.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2020.
ISBN:
9780099587149 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
306.9
Language:
English
BRN:
2288258