Clover Stroud The Giant on the Skyline : On Home, Belonging & Learning to Let

From the Sunday Times bestseller of The Red of my Blood and My Wild and Sleepless Nights comes an inspiring memoir about home, family, and belonging. A travel book about wanting to stay put a pilgrimage through a fabled English landscape ... Strouds best memoir yet, the most invigoratingly expansive, strikingly written. Moving ... Transformative. Daily MailStroud writes gloriously... a deeply thoughtful exploration of the meaning of home and belonging. i NewsThe Giant on the Skyline is a potent reminder, as Stroud takes a step into the unknown, of the ways in which places become part of you. TLSIn the Giant on the Skyline, Stroud has produced something exceptional a mystical meditation on what home means and what constitutes belonging ... It is magical and haunting and profoundly moving. SpectatorAssured, visceral, sexy as well as sensuous, richly coloured in every way. The OldieRaw, honest and poignant. Womans OwnOne of the books were most looking forward to in 2024 Good HousekeepingWould you give up your home for your partners career? What is it that makes your home a home? Can you make a home without the roots that tie you to a place? What is a home when a family is split?Clovers eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Petes work is in America. The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC. Forced to leave the home she loves,... | Clover Stroud The Giant on the Skyline : On Home, Belonging & Learning to Let