The Little I Knew Cheryl Pearson ‘puerile’ (TLS)

‘puerile’ (TLS)

against the odds proving herself invaluable on the hard journey to London

and the intricacies of tiny daily obsessive practices

Belinda Cooke on Sailor's Home: A Miscellany of Poetry

to the collective – humanity’s ‘bad choices piling up like debts’ – Burns is everywhere concerned with consequence and responsibility

The Little I Knew Cheryl Pearson ‘puerile’ (TLS)In Scauri, an end of the line seaside town forty miles or so from Rome, Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath. Whilst the townsfolk meet the event with sad but respectful southern Italian silence, Lea, the town lawyer, wants to investigate. Who was Vittoria, what were her secrets, why had she mysteriously arrived in Scauri thirty years earlier? And was her relationship with Lea all that it seemed? In this unforgettable portrait of a small town and