Books by Vanessa Gebbie
language
English
review 1: To read this extraordinary book is to pause and see life afresh as if through a prism, to tiptoe around a Welsh village and peep through the keyholes, to watch from upstairs windows as detail unfolds on the streets below us, to stare at minutiae through a microscope, and to see i...
language
English
review 1: This is more a collection of linked short stories than a novel. Gebbie reveals the history of a Welsh mining town through questions asked about current inhabitants that are answered by stories told by the town beggar about their parents and grandparents or generally connecting to...