The Living Stones: Cornwall | 
“The Cornish language did not die a natural death; it was executed like a criminal by the oppressing Saxon power.”
I hadn't intentionally paired my reading of these two books, but they're both paeans to ancient cultures, adopted by self-exiled women, which have been colonised and exploited by invaders who have appropriated the rich heritage of a native people, while simultaneously seeking to destroy them.
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