Description
The Sitter
‘…a wind blows dust over the wheat fields which seem already to smell of bread.’ The Sitter is a perfect evocation of late Victorian Norfolk, a fine-spun tale of love and learning, in an age of seismic change. This book charts a lost world that once seemed so sure, capturing the pull of the old in a narrative fresh as the day. With historical scholarship worn light as silk, and an unerring feel for human emotion, Caroline McGhie spins her story’s web, drawing us to the innermost world of each character. An exotic stranger emerges from a cloud of steam, observed by an old railway worker and a curious young lad, and we are pulled back to the heyday of railway, all senses alert. The story unfurls with unflinching attention to intimate detail – brutal working lives, the everyday bravery of fishing families, changing landscape through the East Anglian seasons – all are intricately depicted, with humour never far away, in achingly poetic prose. If you liked… L.P. Hartley’s The Go Between, Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent, Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist or J. L. Carr’s A Month In The Country… then you will love The Sitter.
Jess Streeting, Author of Sea-Change and judge of East Anglian Book Awards 2024.
Paperback / Published by Waterland Books 2025
The Sitter: UK Postage Included (please contact us separately for international postage)
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