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Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which was broadcast in 2011.
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"No Italian-themed book of this season conjures up a place so scrupulously. And none can match Blackburn's in its sympathy with every human traveller through the "vast landscape" of time. Blackburn brings her special gift for the art of place to this lyrical account of the Italian mountain village where she and her husband settled. Although she writes superbly about landscape and wildlife, it's her neighbours, and their haunting tales, who make the book sting." Independent "My book of the year. Beautiful, beguiling, memorable." Edmund de Waal "Impossible to forget...beautiful and deeply humane." Sunday Times "Reading Julia Blackburn's account of her life in a remote corner of the Ligurian mountains is like lifting a stone to find a strange, intricate, hidden world...prose that is ruthlessly unsentimental, but full of love." -- Maggie Fergusson Intelligent Life "A beautiful and unusual exploration of a strange landscape and forgotten lives in a remote Italian region that captivated us all." -- Sue Baker, Peter Donaldson and Flora Fraser Costa Book Awards 2011 judging panel
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0099549425
- ISBN 13 9780099549420
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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