Wider Pools

by Ursula Holden

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Ursula Holden is the English author of thirteen novels, some inspired by the years she lived in Ireland.

Reviews

[taro · Rating 5 out of 5]

i’ve learned a lot about what literature looks like, can look like. i picked this up in a little street library in auckland, i love the world for it a little bit more.

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1. the heat went on and on, like the summers of childhood. you think back, the chief memory is the heat

11. she was always complaining of me yet she seemed to need me. i don’t think she loved me.

77. look, laurel, the clouds are like birds. can you see?

79. unhappy? lolly’s a lucky child.

89. to have water over, round and under me

102. you and your dream talk. “kind.” i get lonely.

[Lisa Niedermayr · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s not short like Hemingway and it’s not stream of consciousness like Woolf, though it thinks it’s both.

[Anushka Sierra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book by Ursula Holden many, many years ago, while I was in the fourth or fifth grade. The content was arguably a little adult for a ten year old, but that especially gripped by attention.

Over the years since then, I haven't come across mention of this book anywhere, let alone see it in a bookstore or such. But the impression this simple account of several profound, yet ordinary characters had on me is yet to fade away.