At the very least, some conversations need to happen in your immediate circle where there is the opportunity for sharing and trust. But it’s important, too, not to have a conversation, and instead listen and say, “So this is what this person believes; I’m going to go and fight.”It’s just as important not to say,“Oh we need to sit down and talk so I can try to get this other person over to my side.” That’s fool-hearted. Foremost, we need to say, “Let me try to understand what this person believes about me, about the world, and then I can decide.” The war's thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team.

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Poetry was very important to me from childhood. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Writing these down came a little later. During this time I published several collections of poems, and wrote some of the short stories which were later collected in Love of Fat Men. I began to travel a great deal within the UK and around the world, for poetry tours and writing residences. This experience of working in many different countries and cultures has been very important to my work. I reviewed poetry for Stand and Poetry Review and later for The Observer, and subsequently reviewed fiction for The Observer, The Times and The Guardian. My critical work includes introductions to the poems of Emily Brontë, the short stories of D H Lawrence and F Scott Fitzgerald, a study of Virginia Woolf’s relationships with women and Introductions to the Folio Society's edition of Anna Karenina and to the new Penguin Classics edition of Tolstoy's My Confession.

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Crooked Heart - Penguin Books UK

The first thing I want to ask you about—do you remember when Édouard Louis said the other night in John’s class that some subjects are pre-political? I find that concept compelling, and I like it because I agree with it. It made me think of subconscious or preconscious things that exist in our minds—things that just are. He said, “Why aren’t we debating the debate?” I thought, “Exactly.” I’ve always thought, “Why are we talking about what women do with their bodies? How is that subject suitable for the floor? This is none of anyone’s business.” Civil rights, human rights, all of these things that I see no need to talk about anymore. I know it’s because we haven’t achieved any sort of peace in those areas that we’re still talking about them, but why haven’t we evolved past these very basic issues yet? At around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I also completed two novels; fortunately neither survives, and it was more than ten years before I wrote another novel. HER CROOKED HEART is the new name; the new music of RACHEL RIES – multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, hired gun,

GC: I’m romantic that way also. I think that in times of despondency that art has a way of speaking to us with a certain resonant frequency—many times we’re in so much pain that we’ve stuffed our fingers in our ears. Art has a way of arresting our attention and bringing us to a place of contemplation and reflection. Our art is a way of saying “you’re not alone,” or “me too.” Art is a way of mourning with those who mourn. But I also think in times of peace and normalcy that art is crucial as a continual reminder of our humanity, of our dignity—a way of bringing us closer to our joys and speaking of our sorrows, and so art is always absolutely crucial and essential and necessary. It’s easy to take it for granted when the world isn’t crumbling around us. But art—good art, anyway­— always calls us to be our better selves. There are ingredients that could make this a very interesting book. There is the hard-working entrepreneur who has two wives (one after another) and a paternal concern for his much younger brother. There is the first wife, who is mother of his daughter, who slides into alcoholism. There is the second wife, who has little interest in the stepdaughter and whose interest in the entrepreneur is primarily in the material comforts he can provide. There is the younger brother who shuns the opportunities for legitimate business success that his brother offers him and prefers instead to get mixed up in criminal activities. And there is the young daughter, re-located from London to Yorkshire, and her new, male playmate. The other characters in this story are Louise, former beauty and current alcoholic, who was married to Paul, but also loves Johnny, Sonia, currently married to Paul, but only loves herself, Anna, the result of one incidence of sex between Louise and Johnny, but currently living with Paul and Sonia, and Anna's friend Dave. The book is mainly about the interactions between them all and what they think and feel about each other, but I did not like or care about any of them, not even the most sympathetic youngsters, so the dramatic ending all fell a bit flat. This is the dullest book I have ever read to the end. But I persevered with it because she had created enough interest in the characters for me to want to find out more about them. Cleverly written, with shades of light and dark that manipulate the emotions, this easy-to-read novel is deceptively complex and utterly charming.’ Sunday Mirror

Crooked Old Baggage by Lissa Evans, review: This prequel to Crooked

Only one thing puzzles me: Dunmore uses the phrase “it’s not Nova Scotia” twice in the book. As in:singer. Her Crooked Heart’s first release, To Gentlemen, hits the ground spinning May 5, complete with Rachel’s own limited edition artwork and featuring members of Bon Iver & Field Report. ... more Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part Includes lyrics and liner notes for all you reader-types. Stunning photography by Sheri Manson! And yes, that's a real pigeon. Evans, Lissa (29 December 2018). "Lissa Evans on Lichfield: 'I went into the library the day we moved and never really came out' ". The Guardian.