Edge: curve, arc, circle

by Sandra Davies

Three coming-of-age tales of learning, adaptation and celebration in Neolithic Orkney, with seventeen original and apt illustrations

'Curve of early learning' describes the hurts of childhood and early adolescence, the acquisition of understanding about one's environment and place in society, and the harsher reality of the precariousness of existence as invaders kill and rape.

'Arc of adaptation' tells of further changes, more deaths, but the discovery of humanity and, eventually love and respect.

'Circle of celebration' describes the journey by land and sea to the Ring of Brodgar for the celebration of the mid-winter solstice.

28 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2011

About the author

Artist, printmaker, family historian and writer, born in Essex, lived in Teesside for decades.

Easing myself from a decade of printmaking, I began writing fiction in 2010. As well as 'Edge', the illustrated 'One that got away' spawned three novels written for my own entertainment.
Thereafter I further challenged myself and began a tale of murder. Luke Darbyshere and Baz Rose seized hold of my imagination. I wanted to know more about their occasionally toxic relationships with each other, and with the women they loved. Murder became the background against which were enacted the triangles of their lives and their affairs and to date they have featured in four novels: 'Step so Grave', 'Longest shadows reach'. 'Commissiom & Omission' and 'Drink with a dead man' All available from https://www.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDa...

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