Meynell selected these essays from her earlier books for a collected edition. They move from the weeds that escape the Roman authorities in ‘Ceres’ Runaway’ to rain, wells, rushes and reeds, the tow-path and the stars, then to pathos, composure, the honours of mortality and ‘The Little Language’ of childhood.
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