Dart by Alice Oswald #literature ‘What an extraordinary book

‘What an extraordinary book

Constance Horton has disappeared and her sister Maude is determined to find out what’s happened

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DIVE INTO THE DEBUT OF THE SUMMER

Dart by Alice Oswald #literature ‘What an extraordinary bookOver the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists and are interlinked with historic and