I could read your work for hours, Annabelle. You're amazing. As someone who loves talking about the weather, it's eye opening to read that connection (or in my case disconnection) between weather and climate. Had never thought about how they're both obviously the same thing but kept in seperate dialogues by their language. I'll give The Alternatives a read too!
I haven't read The Alternatives yet, so many great reviews, including yours here and Bri's. Its on my list. I loved how you write about all good fiction needing weather. I write non-fiction currently, memoir mostly, and weather is often a way in to a story for me, a rainy day, the mystery of the wind, waiting for snow. Perhaps, its the way that the weather is such a good metaphor for our lives. I hadn't thought about how we cannot avoid writing about climate and climate catastrophe now. It good em thinking, perhaps this is also what I am bringing into my writing.
Love this comment Kate - weather is where we are in situ, if we want a reader to feel immersed in our moment, we share how we feel and that brings in cold, warmth, the mood of rain, unsettled wind, and so on.
I could read your work for hours, Annabelle. You're amazing. As someone who loves talking about the weather, it's eye opening to read that connection (or in my case disconnection) between weather and climate. Had never thought about how they're both obviously the same thing but kept in seperate dialogues by their language. I'll give The Alternatives a read too!
I found this book moving too in its direct tackling of what many novels nod to as an aside, or ignore. Love how you write about it here.
It’s characters have lived on with me, particularly Olwen
Thanks Sally - I really loved this book, on some many levels.
I haven't read The Alternatives yet, so many great reviews, including yours here and Bri's. Its on my list. I loved how you write about all good fiction needing weather. I write non-fiction currently, memoir mostly, and weather is often a way in to a story for me, a rainy day, the mystery of the wind, waiting for snow. Perhaps, its the way that the weather is such a good metaphor for our lives. I hadn't thought about how we cannot avoid writing about climate and climate catastrophe now. It good em thinking, perhaps this is also what I am bringing into my writing.
Love this comment Kate - weather is where we are in situ, if we want a reader to feel immersed in our moment, we share how we feel and that brings in cold, warmth, the mood of rain, unsettled wind, and so on.