The Bower Bird

by Ann Kelley This unusual children’s book is written with a beautiful sense of place in the physical world and of belonging. The narrator is Gussie, twelve years old and awaiting a heart transplant. She has moved from London to Cornwall with her mother after the parents separated.  The daughter of an artist and a photographer, Gussie [...]

Still Breathing

The tension – this films seems to say – between consolation that is found in love and companionship and in the knowledge that we do not suffer alone, and the sense of radical aloneness that companionship and love seem unable to reach, is at the heart of our mortal identity.                       – Raimond Gaita                                                            Still Breathing [...]