Staying true

Judy Kirby reviews an ‘idiosyncratic and surprising’ autobiography by Lynn Waddington

by Judy Kirby 14th September 2012

Lynn Waddington was a Huckleberry child. Her river was the Delaware, idling through South Jersey, shared with brother and sister and swimming muskrats. A child in a natural world, she wrote, ‘can hear the footsteps of beetles far away.’ The family home sat without neighbours for many years until the weekend cottagers moved in. It was, after all, an idyllic spot.