Do you enjoy city and country, simple and complex ideas and events? Do you have fellow-feeling with others? You may have a soul-mate here! Have you lived in different places and countries? Travelled abroad? Gillian Bickley draws on events, happenings, creatures, artefacts and objects she has seen, and on places and people she has experienced in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. Are you a lover of books? The writer shows how we carry our reading with us wherever we go.
In strongly contrasting mood, a final sequence of poems, taken from a long novel in progress, sketches a chronological narrative, alive with complex emotions, concluding in a form of quiet acceptance.