A Journey Through Lost Britain
Faber & Faber 2022
Hb, 368pp, £20, ISBN 9780571338023
Shadowlands isn’t an easy read. Its elegant, almost poetic, style conveys such melancholy that I took it slowly, one chapter a time. Matthew Green’s personal losses, experienced during the writing of the book, resonate with the subject matter of Britain’s lost places.
Wistfulness for the past and his empathy with the communities he writes about are evident throughout, but