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My Sand Life, My Pebble Life [electronic resource] : A memoir of a childhood and the sea

McMillan, Ian2022
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My Sand Life, My Pebble Life is a new book focusing on one of poet Ian McMillan's great loves – the sea – and the places and memories that have shaped who he is today. Comprised of a series of perfectly crafted, evocative, funny and nostalgic essays, Ian revisits the coastal places that stamped themselves on his childhood: Cleethorpes, where a bird once landed on the seat next to him as the miniature railway chugged along, California in Suffolk where his Auntie accidentally put her hand through the window of a caravan and bled spectacularly, Minehead in Somerset where his dad kept stalling the car and the family limped across the map and took all day to get a very short distance, Broadford on the Isle of Skye where midges descended on Ian like an apocalyptic umbrella. This book will transport you from your everyday life to a coast rich in memories of childhood and times spent by the sea.
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781472982957
Language:
English
BRN:
504760
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