Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben #foliosociety It’s Hester’s fortieth birthday when

It’s Hester’s fortieth birthday when she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer

PaperbackPublication: 3 Mar 2022

ArrowISBN: 9781784752637Extent: 320 pages

PaperbackPublication: 21 Sept 2017

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben #foliosociety It’s Hester’s fortieth birthday whenIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes