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A review by plathfanclub
Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books by Sally Bayley
5.0
'So the child with the white blanket runs across the meadow and the clouds puff and blow, puff and blow, and the child lifts up his arms and sails into the sky'
One of the most extraordinary books I have read. Powerful, moving, unsettling, enchanting, obscure. Navigating your way through the fog of Bayley's life is often challenging - as her mother says, facts are often thin on the ground - but 'Girl with Dove' is so good at capturing the hazy, often confusing world of childhood and the way in which we can make sense of often traumatic experiences through literature. As child Sally discovers, books are a refuge in which we can hide - but they also allow us to fly free, sparrows rising from the ash and dust towards a better world.
One of the most extraordinary books I have read. Powerful, moving, unsettling, enchanting, obscure. Navigating your way through the fog of Bayley's life is often challenging - as her mother says, facts are often thin on the ground - but 'Girl with Dove' is so good at capturing the hazy, often confusing world of childhood and the way in which we can make sense of often traumatic experiences through literature. As child Sally discovers, books are a refuge in which we can hide - but they also allow us to fly free, sparrows rising from the ash and dust towards a better world.