I’m glad I read this book, and I’ve never read one quite like it. It’s an exploration of landscapes – how we portray them and how we feel about them. It ranges widely from the lunar landscape via Antarctica to East Anglia and from urban to rural. The author is a landscape architect (and I realised I didn’t really know what that meant) and has a long career in this area. She writes very gently and clearly – it’s a thoughful book.
There are many references to poetry, art and popular culture. When we are in The Fens we hear from Dorothy L. Sayers, Graham Swift, John Clare and others.
If you’d like to be nudged, gently nudged, into thinking more about how the world around you looks, then you will enjoy this book. I certainly did.
The cover? Far less interesting than the book – I’d give it 6/10.
Landscape: a common place by Rosamunde Codling is published by Mascot Media
My forthcoming book, Reflections, will be published on 4 July and already can be ordered.
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