Childhood's Hill
Synopsis
'While most people were getting married and settling down, thereby ensuring that they had a husband in their bedrooms, I was contentedly trapping in jam jars the night fliers - those heavy winged creatures that invade our homes of a summer evening... The moths. The night fliers. Not the children I might have had perhaps, but they filled a place and a purpose and they kept me content.'
A bitter-sweet, turn-of-the-century memoir about the Seventh Daughter, a child blessed with strange powers and an almost pagan reverence for nature, growing up in Edinburgh and the countryside of Midlothian.
Childhood's Hill is in turn bitingly funny and tragic, innocent and utterly wise. With acute powers of observation and a sharp wit, Marjorie paints her life in vignettes - dancing classes, a garden lit by moonlight, the loss of her friend Eileen, her mother's bustling restaurant on the Bridges and the grandfather with a horse called turban. A rhythm of dreaming and waking pervades this deeply interiorised portrait of the self, 'the dot within the circle'.
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