Childhood Hill
by Marjorie Wilson
Description
“While most people were getting married and settling down, thereby ensuring that they had a husband in their bedrooms, I was contentedly trapping in jam jars the night fliers - those heavywinged creatures that invade our home of a summer evening. The moths. The night fliers. Not the children I might have had perhaps, but they filed a place and a purpose and they kept me content.”
A bitter-sweet, turn-of-the-century memoir about the Seventh Daughter, a child blessed with strange powers and an almost pagan reverence for nature, growing up in Edinburgh and the countryside of Midlothian.
Childhood’s Hill is in turn bitingly funny and tragic, innocent and utterly wise. With acute powers of observation and a sharp wit, Marjorie Wilson paints her life in vignettes - dancing classes, a garden lit by moonlight, the loss of her friend Eilleen, her mother’s bustling restaurant on the Bridges and the grandfather with a horse called Taliban.
A rhythm of dreaming and waking pervades this deeply interiorised portrait of the self, “the dot within the circle.
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Rights Information
World rights available.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Linen Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780955961809
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.99 GBP
- Pages124
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusOut-Of-Print
- Dimensions24x16 cm
- IllustrationYes
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