A review by mppilk
The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go by Clover Stroud

reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book really wasn’t for me but having said that I’m glad I read it. Clover is living with her 5 children in the rural countryside of England. Within view of the famous chalk White Horse on the hillside. She has a remarkable affinity with nature and her local community and her love of this shines through in the book. However her husband is working in the US and it applying pressure to make the family move to Washington DC so they can be together. Although how that will make that much of a difference to them I don’t know as he seemed to be working all over the US.
I found both Clover and Pete very annoying people. He reckoned he couldn’t afford to keep a family of 5 children afloat by working in the UK…….really!! Plain selfish I thought, his career was far more important to him than his family or at least this is how it comes across. And Clover never seemed to be able to spell out how she felt, what sort of a relationship was that? In the end it all worked out for the man and I hope it works out for them. 
Rounded up to 3⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley.co.uk and the publishers for this ARC