Just got Alice's book as well, looking forward to reading it! Beautiful cover. Your boathouse beach trip sounds so lovely - can't beat a bit of time by the sea! 🌊
Why Women Grow is our current book club choice. I’m thoroughly enjoying it and her podcast...I loved and really felt her piece on the first bleary days of early motherhood...which I’m still very much in with three little ones 4 and under.
I love your writing and your trip sounds stunning. How you describe your trip make me close my eyes and think of all the times I’d swam in the sea and had the sun on my back, utter contentment 💙
Floating in the sea is the best kind of bliss! Oh I feel you with the early motherhood days. My youngest is ten now, but those day are still so close in my memory.
I bought a copy of Elkin's book on my last visit to London en route back to Paris where I lived a long time ago and ate it up in one bite! After reading your post I am reviewing sweet memories of reading Oxenbury's picture books to my son when he was a child. Do you remember Pippo I asked him just now, oh yes he does!
How evocative your description of the beach holiday is, I can hear the masts clanking and picture the vast skies. We stayed on the Suffolk coast in Walberswick earlier this year and I loved walking early each morning to watch the sunrise. And then you find the cottage belonged to the family of Helen Oxenbury! Wonderful. I too loved her illustrations. Thank you for the book recommendations.
Oh I love Walberswick so much! We crab-fished there every summer when I was a child. Have you read The Sea House by Esther Freud? It’s set in a fictionalised version of Walberswick. And yes, it was such a joy - almost as if we had stepped right into the Bear Hunt!
It’s such a lovely village, almost from an Enid Blyton adventure. I haven’t read that, thank you for the suggestion. I heard the Freud family have a house there.
Just got Alice's book as well, looking forward to reading it! Beautiful cover. Your boathouse beach trip sounds so lovely - can't beat a bit of time by the sea! 🌊
Such a beautiful cover! And yes, the sea is always a good idea. 💙
Why Women Grow is our current book club choice. I’m thoroughly enjoying it and her podcast...I loved and really felt her piece on the first bleary days of early motherhood...which I’m still very much in with three little ones 4 and under.
I love your writing and your trip sounds stunning. How you describe your trip make me close my eyes and think of all the times I’d swam in the sea and had the sun on my back, utter contentment 💙
Floating in the sea is the best kind of bliss! Oh I feel you with the early motherhood days. My youngest is ten now, but those day are still so close in my memory.
I bought a copy of Elkin's book on my last visit to London en route back to Paris where I lived a long time ago and ate it up in one bite! After reading your post I am reviewing sweet memories of reading Oxenbury's picture books to my son when he was a child. Do you remember Pippo I asked him just now, oh yes he does!
Isn’t it brilliant? I shall definitely re-read again sometime. Ahh, Oxenbury’s picture books are pure magic. She captures childhood so beautifully.
How evocative your description of the beach holiday is, I can hear the masts clanking and picture the vast skies. We stayed on the Suffolk coast in Walberswick earlier this year and I loved walking early each morning to watch the sunrise. And then you find the cottage belonged to the family of Helen Oxenbury! Wonderful. I too loved her illustrations. Thank you for the book recommendations.
Oh I love Walberswick so much! We crab-fished there every summer when I was a child. Have you read The Sea House by Esther Freud? It’s set in a fictionalised version of Walberswick. And yes, it was such a joy - almost as if we had stepped right into the Bear Hunt!
It’s such a lovely village, almost from an Enid Blyton adventure. I haven’t read that, thank you for the suggestion. I heard the Freud family have a house there.