
These Silent Mansions
''A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself'' Literary Review
Graveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead.
Jean Sprackland - the prize-winni...
''A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself'' Literary Review
Graveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead.
Jean Sprackland - the prize-winni...
