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Book SynopsisAccidental Fruit is about the almost seen, the half remembered and the not quite touched, the silent collisions of past and present and the perpetual interweaving of childhood and age. It registers death as the moment where lived experience is transformed into history. But it is equally preoccupied with the absurdities of the school run and the small satisfactions of village gossip, the way the trees move on a windy day, and its own impossible efforts to pin down the sea.
Trade ReviewCarolyn Oulton's world is meticulously observed and set down with a clarity that pierces the surface of things. Fresh, beautifully controlled and with a knack of transforming the quotidian Accidental Fruit brims with memory, daily rhythms, landscape, history and humanity,as engaging as it is accomplished. Jan Fortune.
Table of ContentsStories of the war 1 Service Users' Book Club 2 Aurora Leigh in the Care Home 3 Waking to the light 4 Home Movie 5 Plane Passing 6 Lines in a Victorian diary, January 1862 - August 2010 7 Forecast 8 New Year Suddenly 9 School Run 10 Lines stolen from my daughter 11 Accidental Fruit 12 Threading the breeze 13 Travelling Backwards 14 Can you spot the difference between these two pictures? 15 Wind Stripped 16 A Walk in September 17 Glee 18 I ought to be working but 19 @theVictorianheroine 20 This morning I loved 21 Jerome K. Jerome in Walsall 22 Things I never did as a child 23 Painting the sea 24 Jumping Downs 25 Second prize answer 26 The Watchers 27 Cultural Studies 28 Flowers in the Snow 29 Dry Ice 30 Story on repeat 31 Circus 32 Easter 33 The web 34 From the cliff 35 Channel Crossing 36 Hodnet, Shropshire. 1876 37 Phases of the Moon 38 Toy Boats 39 The Book 40 Folkestone, New Year's Day 41 Flood 42 I knew it would start 43 Before I am old 44 Word for emergency use 45 May in the Garden 46 Early Work 48 Where the River Was 50 Looking for a Sunset 51 Coming in to Fishbourne 52 Heat-soaked 53 After Rain 54 Incidental God 55 Grass to The Head 56 Creative Writing Induction 57 Behind the Voices 58 Tidelines 59 Days After a Day 60 Notes for a Biography 61
