The rising down

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When Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. As she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of archival records and everyday objects, bringing a lifetime’s reading to bear on the place where she started, hundreds of unexpected stories and hypnotic voices emerged from the area’s past. Who has stood here, she asks; what did they see? From the painter John Constable and the modernist writer Ford Madox Ford to the lost local women who left little trace, these electrifying encounters inspired her to imagine lives that seemed distant, yet were deeply connected through their shared landscape. By focusing on one small patch of England, Harris finds ‘a World in a Grain of Sand’ and opens vast new horizons, becoming our intimate companion as we travel on visionary journeys through space and time.

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‘Remarkable.’ THE TIMES
‘Wonderful.’ GUARDIAN
‘Fascinating.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
A landscape-keyhole onto the whole world . . . Glorious.’ Robert Macfarlane
‘A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.’ RICHARD MABEY

When Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. As she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of archival records and everyday objects, hundreds of unexpected stories and hypnotic voices emerged from the area’s past. These electrifying encounters – ranging from those with the painter John Constable and the modernist writer Ford Madox Ford to the lost local women who left little trace – inspired her to imagine lives that, though seemingly distant, are deeply connected through this shared landscape. By focusing on one small patch of England, Harris opens vast new horizons.

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

512

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.26 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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