Little Boy Lost Category_Grey Books/Poetry But at least its precepts

But at least its precepts can contribute to the movement for self-reliance and sustainability

something that was happening to the novelist Elizabeth Taylor at exactly the same period for the same reason: all the literary magazines then publishing short stories were edited by men

not ending it

she returns to her lab to work on a method of extinguishing the liquid fire used by the German troops – and thus helping the war effort (just as Hertha Ayrton had invented the ‘Ayrton fan’)

House-Bound also contains a more unusual theme: Rose’s daughter Flora is difficult

Little Boy Lost Category_Grey Books/Poetry But at least its preceptsAFTERWORD BY ANNE SEBBA 232pp ISBN 9781903155172 'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece,' wrote Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian. 'As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merits although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer, this is the one. 'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted