The Giant on the Skyline - Clover Stroud

From the Sunday Times bestseller of The Red of my Blood and My Wild and Sleepless Nights comes an inspiring memoir about home, family, and belonging.''A travel book about wanting to stay put: a pilgrimage through a fabled English landscape … Stroud’s best memoir yet, the most invigoratingly expansive, strikingly written. Moving … Transformative.'' Daily Mail''Stroud writes gloriously… a deeply thoughtful exploration of the meaning of home and belonging''. - i News''The Giant on the Skyline is a potent reminder, as Stroud takes a step into the unknown, of the ways in which places become part of you.'' TLS''In the Giant on the Skyline, Stroud has produced something exceptional: a mystical meditation on what home means and what constitutes belonging … It is magical and haunting and profoundly moving.'' Spectator''Assured, visceral, sexy as well as sensuous, richly coloured in every way.'' The Oldie''Raw, honest and poignant.'' Woman''s Own''One of the books we''re most looking forward to in 2024'' - Good Housekeeping-----------------Would you give up your home for your partner''s career? What is it that makes your home a home? Can you make a home without the roots that tie you to a place? What is a home when a family is split?Clover''s eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Pete''s work is in America.The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgewa
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