Susanna’s sisters

Simon Webb writes about the genesis of his latest book Susanna’s sisters

Extract from Susanna’s sisters | Photo: Patricia Brown and Simon Webb

One of my first experiences of Quakerism took place in a house full of triangular rooms in Clifton, the charming Georgian part of Bristol. The house was used as a university hall of residence. It had triangular rooms because it formed the elbow between two rows of townhouses that met at an odd angle. On some floors, the architect had tried to make a rectangular room, but, of course, that meant that he just had to stick two triangular rooms onto the sides of it.

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