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A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, its beauty, its invention. Baume is a writer of outstanding ...Show more
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
Category: Fiction
A Line Made by Walking, the successor of the critically acclaimed Spill Simmer Falter Wither, is a beautiful and elegant novel by an author whose empathy shines a bright, piercing light on the heart-breaking realities of being alive.Struggling to cope with urban life - and with life in general - Frankie ...Show more
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
Category: Fiction
"It takes both daring and humility to write a book as unique as Seven Steeples. In unfailingly precise and lyrical prose, and with a religious attention to even the humblest things of this world, Sara Baume pays homage to nature, to hearth and home, and to the miracle of a love engendered by the union o ...Show more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Category: Fiction
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIANFIRST BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENTNEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window- COMPASSIONATE &am ...Show more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Category: Fiction
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: Compassionate & Tolerant Owner. A person without other pets and without children under four. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young ...Show more
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