Welcome to Litsy!

Blaxland's voice is loud in this book - rightly so, as it's all about her house and a year living in it. She's forthright and opinionated, giving lots of fodder for opposing views, spectrums of agreement and healthy debate. The book is wide in scope - giving us a taster of the microcosm of wildlife, sky, characters and the rhythm of country life as she waits of the cliff to recede and her home to be taken by the sea.

Spending the afternoon re reading a book in pre for a ‘Literary Lunch with the author next week!

This is always a shortlist I look forward to. A few weekends ago whilst on the Suffolk Coast a bookseller hand sold me the tagged book. We then too a long walk from the bookstore to go and visit the house. A gorgeous afternoon at the shore.

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The bookseller in the local bookshop raved about this...Juliet Blaxland moved into the house on the edge of the cliff 12 years ago. There were three houses, the first has fallen into the sea as a result of erosion, hers is the second house and thus the next that will fall into the sea. The book follows a year in the life of living in the most easternmost house.