Exploring doubt

Rosalind Smith writes about a book on loss and belonging

by Rosalind Smith 9th March 2018

The cover of a book does not usually influence me but I admit to being immediately moved by this one. It shows a photograph of a lowering, open sky and the hauntingly bleak, flat marshes of the north Norfolk coastline: wild, wet and wind-swept, beloved of artists, walkers, bird-watchers and others. A single rowing boat lies tilted on its side amongst the dark green vegetation and rivulets that flow towards the not far distant sea.