seven steeples
By Sara Baume
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Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy of their relationship, cut them- selves off from friends and family. Them in and the world out. From the top of the nearby mountain, they are told, you can see seven standing stones, seven schools, and seven steeples. All you have to do is climb.
Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.
Sara Baume
SARA BAUME studied fine art before earning a master’s in creative writing. Her first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award. She is also the recipient of the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, and lives in Cork, Ireland.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’ve become one very large moth that’s uncontrollable drawn to this book. Her style is wondrous and she’s a poet in the way she places her words about the page. I brought only two solitarily books out of my tens of thousands of books I have in California. This was one—I see myself reading it over and over again, seeking to enjoy every pleasure contained within it. The other book was a thin poetry collection, Without, by Donald Hall, where he was expressing living with and losing his love, the poet Jane Kenyon. Both books are so focused on two people alone together, which always reminds me of the love of my life, my everything, Vicky.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A young couple, Sigh and Bell [Simon and Isabelle], decides to live in the Irish countryside with their two dogs. We follow them over a period of eight years. Each little detail of their day-to-day life and of nature through the seasons and years is lovingly and vividly described. This book took my breath away; this prose-poem was that gorgeously written. I loved the author's metaphors and similes. The short biography of the author on the dust jacket calls the author a "visual artist" and I can see why.Highly recommended.