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Sun country: writing my way home

2026· 256 pages

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In 'Sun Country', Howard Cunnell returns to the southern England beachlands of his boyhood after the death of his mother. A love letter to the changing coast and sea, this is a book alive with light and shadow, where the white spaces between words are as charged with tension and power as the words themselves. It is a reckoning with the things we inherit - silence and absence, stories told and untold - and the transgression involved in turning a life into art. At the heart of the book is Gillian, his devoted single mother, and the small yet unforgettable details of her life that are woven into a powerful meditation on impermanence, grief, class and solitude. At once intimate and expansive, this luminous memoir traces one man's journey from loss back towards life.

Genres: Biography
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781526691606