Flatlands

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While the author stays true to the central theme of The Snow Goose, also naming her characters Freda and Philip, (Frith and Philip in Gallico’s novella) Hubbard’s characters are developed with much depth. I've read that Sue Hubbard-a poet, novelist, and art critic- is revered by top critics and authors in the UK and has been likened to Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, and William Trevor. Flatlands has an elegiac, gentle quality, evoking the Wash as “a place between somewhere and nowhere, one of the last wildernesses in England”.

She meets Philip Rhayader, a conscientious objector who has left Oxford and his vocation in the Church following a nervous breakdown, and he introduces her to the wonders of the natural world and its enduring power to heal. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. I feel bad because this got multiple 5 star ratings from other ARCers but I just did not feel as drawn in as others did and the ending really ruined it for me.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But the attempts of care home staff to interest her in a BBC programme commemorating the 75th anniversary of Dunkirk are met with listlessness. The parallel loneliness they both face helps them find one another and share what little they have making life during wartime a bit more bearable.

Flatlands is a haunting and lyrical novel about loneliness and the compensations of the natural world, art and unlikely friendships.This quiet, beautiful book is a new retelling of the classic novella The Snow Goose by the American author Paul Gallico.

He loves the desolation and wildness of the mudflats and enjoys being on his own with his painting and the wild birds and the struggles of trying to earn enough to keep himself alive. This story is loosely based on the Gallico story 'The Snow Goose' and the life of Peter Scott but is wholely fictional. She was small and plain and unclaimed until taken by a poor family, a family that worked hard just to survive, a family without the luxury of love.

What is beautifully developed, however, is the question of how we might live without religion or war-mongering.

The Author's Note that opens this book tells us that she has reworked Paul Gallico's novella, The Snow Goose, as a novel for adults. A bond is formed between these two, as a conscientious objector he is considered somewhat of an outsider, someone who doesn’t really fit in with his family, or with a country at war, and she is definitively an outsider, a child far from home.

This is a story told from 2 points of view and it takes awhile to figure out that the man's story is in the present and the little girl is looking back. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I had to look up almost all of the clothes -- didn't know what they were for sure and in a long list couldn't let them all just drift by!