Culture Alert!
Local Borth Author Richard Collins had come good with a beautiful first novel which has made it on the Whitbread Book Awards shortlist (and netted him a six figure advance!).
The Land as Viewed from the Sea is an intriguing, atmospheric and timeless tale about friendship, conflict, love—and Borth. I have yet to read it (I rushed out and bought my copy yesterday) but it hits the nail on the head if this little excerpt is anything to go by:
‘Sean and Catherine are at the small village station waiting for his train. The single platform faces away from the village and the sea and so they find themselves looking inland, across the tracks to the marshes and the bleak hills beyond. They are the only people there.
“Busy today”, he says.
She looks at him enquiringly.
“Three cows,” hes says. “Oh, and two sheep in the field over there. I don’t know what your brother is going to make of this place. Straight from London to the edge of the known world. A bit of a culture shock.” ‘
—Borth in a nutshell! I just wondered what happened to the donkey that usually grazes nearby.
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