About this ebook
A beautiful and haunting exploration of the ties and tensions within a family. With characters as diverse as Christ, the red-breasted robin and kings Arthur and Alfred, Black Dirt is the story of Frank - and the stories he tells George and Margaret, his adult children.
Lying ill in bed, Frank finds his dying dreams haunted by figures from his past: his parents, and his older sister Iris, whose existence - and terrible crime - he has spent long years struggling to forget.
Revealing the dark and sinister shadows that can shape a child's imagination, Nell Leyshon explores the boundaries of fantasy, where the familiar happy-ever-after ending of the fold-tales and fairy-stories is far from certain.
Lying ill in bed, Frank finds his dying dreams haunted by figures from his past: his parents, and his older sister Iris, whose existence - and terrible crime - he has spent long years struggling to forget.
Revealing the dark and sinister shadows that can shape a child's imagination, Nell Leyshon explores the boundaries of fantasy, where the familiar happy-ever-after ending of the fold-tales and fairy-stories is far from certain.
About the author
Nell Leyshon is a novelist and award-winning playwright, with work broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and published by Oberon Books. She was brought up in Glastonbury and lives in Bournemouth.
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