Time and Tide
The landscape of Britain and Ireland is steeped in literature, and Fiona Stafford, a romantic realist and Oxford literary professor, is the best possible companion to unearth its secrets.
Born in Lincolnshire and the daughter of an RAF father, she writes as if from the air, swooping down on such unfashionable places as the bleak Fens, brick-making Bedfordshire and maritime Hull. Then there are the Lakes of Wordsworth and