Appius and Virginia Pride a regular visitor to her

a regular visitor to her dementia home in a small coastal town

and prompts people to make connections with what is happening in their lives and how the Holy Spirit may be guiding them

With no need for a large garden or a big budget

But her refreshing honesty and humour combine to make her tale all the more harrowing

acceptance and purpose seems especially vital at a time when our misuse and misunderstanding of the natural world has brought us to our current climate crisis’ Bernadette Russell

Appius and Virginia Pride a regular visitor to herA rediscovered work by a lost novelist from the 1930s One of the most inventive novelists of her generation TLS Virginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment. She will take an ape and raise it as a human child. She purchases an infant orangutan and names him Appius. She clothes him, feeds him, and puts him to bed in a cot every night. As Appius grows older, she teaches him to dress himself, to speak, to read, to stand and walk up straight, to eat his