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Through the Granite Mirror
Through the Granite Mirror: An epic story of a Cornish farming family
Standback only came for a funeral, and the ferrets. Fifteen years ago he’d turned his back on Cornwall. He’d stopped belonging after the sale of Trevarnon Farm. Curiosity leads him back to Trevarnon where his brother Eddie is repairing a Cornish hedge, a hedge originally built by Grandad.
Standback can’t resist the stones. As the brothers work from opposite sides of the hedge in the traditional manner, the ever-present voice of Grandad echoing in their memories, we live through the changing face of rural West Penwith from the end of World War II into the 21st century.
This story of two brothers is also a story of the granite land itself . . . the soil, the cliffs and in particular the Cornish hedges, home to so many species of plants, mammals, insects, and secrets.
ISBN: 9781852001964
Size: 212x135m
Binding: paperback
Length: 137pp
About the author:
Pauline Sheppard
Pauline Sheppard has lived and worked in Cornwall for 51 years. She is well-respected in the county as a playwright, short story writer and poet. With 15 original stage plays, 19 stage adaptations, 3 film animations, 5 screenplays and countless stories and poems for performance, education, magazines and the BBC; Through The Granite Mirror is her debut novel.
“Luminous flashes of poetry and humour flicker through the text, and Cornish cadences sing out in place names and turns of phrase.” Francesca Morrison wrote in The Stage in 2006 after watching Tin & Fishes, a play about changes in the community when Geevor Tin Mine closed. “This tiny backstreet hall provided one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life,” (Laurie Swindell in the New Zealand Daily Telegraph said of Dressing Granite (1996): the story of a father and son fighting to maintain their livelihood.
In Through The Granite Mirror she takes an incisive look at the land itself, the Cornish Hedges, and the way we connect with our past and our roots.
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