And Then Gone (Hardcover) Richard Skelton
And Then Gone
Richard Skelton
210pp
130 x 200mm
First Edition HardcoverISBN 978-1-9160-951-3-7
- Additional, unsigned, unnumbered copies with slight marks to front covers -
DETAILS
Clothbound hardcover book
Verdant green cover
Metallic green foil debossed sigil
Fawn endpapers, head & tail bands
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Signed and numbered
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Edition of 111
DESCRIPTION
‘a ritual, a beating of the bounds of memory
… as much a haunting as a book’
(Justin Hopper)
In the wake of an unnamed calamity a solitary woman travels back to her childhood home, navigating the maze of narrow roads that cross-cut England’s hinterlands below Hadrian’s Wall. In the absence of human contact, the agency of the land itself begins to impress itself upon her consciousness, and, as her journey unfolds, her life and the lives of the dead, both recent and ancient, slowly reveal themselves as inextricably intertwined.
‘it courses like a dark and turbid river’
(Brian Lavelle)
Richard Skelton’s second work of fiction continues his exploration of the relationship between landscape and human identity. Whereas The Look Away focused on a claustrophobic, individual encounter, And Then Gone expands to extend the narrative into the deep past, and the stories of lives now ‘flattened between the pages of earth.’
‘a gripping emotional topography’
(Emily Oldfield)