Jennifer Potter is theauthor of four novels and six works of nonfiction, all infused with a sense ofplace. Martinique, the Yemen, France, and the marshlands of southern Britainprovided the backdrop to her novels, while her latest nonfiction took her toVirginia in pursuit of a forgotten episode of colonial history. She lives in London and returns to her nativeLake District whenever she can.

'A geologically inclinedpastoral; an ode to the Lakes; an eye-opening portrait of post war bucolicism;an unravelling of family secrets...and a dogged quest for the trail of KurtSchwitters whose collages form a template or model for this extravagantly variegated book.' JonathanMeades

Jennifer Potter is theauthor of four novels and six works of nonfiction, all infused with a sense ofplace. Martinique, the Yemen, France, and the marshlands of southern Britainprovided the backdrop to her novels, while her latest nonfiction took her toVirginia in pursuit of a forgotten episode of colonial history. She lives in London and returns to her nativeLake District whenever she can.

'A geologically inclinedpastoral; an ode to the Lakes; an eye-opening portrait of post war bucolicism;an unravelling of family secrets...and a dogged quest for the trail of KurtSchwitters whose collages form a template or model for this extravagantly variegated book.' JonathanMeades

Jennifer Potter is theauthor of four novels and six works of nonfiction, all infused with a sense ofplace. Martinique, the Yemen, France, and the marshlands of southern Britainprovided the backdrop to her novels, while her latest nonfiction took her toVirginia in pursuit of a forgotten episode of colonial history. She lives in London and returns to her nativeLake District whenever she can.

'A geologically inclinedpastoral; an ode to the Lakes; an eye-opening portrait of post war bucolicism;an unravelling of family secrets...and a dogged quest for the trail of KurtSchwitters whose collages form a template or model for this extravagantly variegated book.' JonathanMeades