Sun Country
Writing My Way Home
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2026
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-9160-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-9160-6 (ISBN)
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A beautifully written, courageous and deeply moving journey from sorrow to acceptance, from loss to hope, shimmering with coastal light and hard-won wisdom.
In Sun Country, Howard Cunnell returns to the southern England beachlands of his boyhood after the death of his mother.
A love letter to the changing coast and sea, Sun Country is a book alive with light and shadow, where the white spaces between words are as charged with tension and power as the words themselves. It is a reckoning with the things we inherit – silence and absence, stories told and untold – and the transgression involved in turning a life into art. At the heart of the book is Gillian, his devoted single mother, and the small yet unforgettable details of her life that are woven into a powerful meditation on impermanence, grief, class and solitude.
At once intimate and expansive, this luminous memoir traces one man’s journey from loss back towards life. Through stories about the writers and painters with whom he feels a kinship – including the English Romantics, W. H. Hudson and Agnes Martin – and the history of his own Sussex working-class family, Cunnell writes his way home to a place, to a culture and to himself as an artist.
Cunnell’s descriptive power, so widely praised in his first memoir, reaches a new breathtaking level, with the simplicity that only comes from the finest craft and poetry.
PRAISE FOR HOWARD CUNNELL:
'Cunnell's style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful' Irish Times
'Bloody brilliant' Olivia Laing
'A wonderful writer who should be read by everyone' Sarah Winman
'Cunnell's writing has an unforgettable visual and moral clarity' Melissa Harrison
'Dazzlingly beautiful ... This is truly heartstopping writing' Financial Times
'Behold, and rejoice' Tim Winton
In Sun Country, Howard Cunnell returns to the southern England beachlands of his boyhood after the death of his mother.
A love letter to the changing coast and sea, Sun Country is a book alive with light and shadow, where the white spaces between words are as charged with tension and power as the words themselves. It is a reckoning with the things we inherit – silence and absence, stories told and untold – and the transgression involved in turning a life into art. At the heart of the book is Gillian, his devoted single mother, and the small yet unforgettable details of her life that are woven into a powerful meditation on impermanence, grief, class and solitude.
At once intimate and expansive, this luminous memoir traces one man’s journey from loss back towards life. Through stories about the writers and painters with whom he feels a kinship – including the English Romantics, W. H. Hudson and Agnes Martin – and the history of his own Sussex working-class family, Cunnell writes his way home to a place, to a culture and to himself as an artist.
Cunnell’s descriptive power, so widely praised in his first memoir, reaches a new breathtaking level, with the simplicity that only comes from the finest craft and poetry.
PRAISE FOR HOWARD CUNNELL:
'Cunnell's style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful' Irish Times
'Bloody brilliant' Olivia Laing
'A wonderful writer who should be read by everyone' Sarah Winman
'Cunnell's writing has an unforgettable visual and moral clarity' Melissa Harrison
'Dazzlingly beautiful ... This is truly heartstopping writing' Financial Times
'Behold, and rejoice' Tim Winton
Howard Cunnell is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, which was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and two novels. A former scuba instructor and dive guide, he is the contributing editor of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road -The Original Scroll, which the New York Times called ‘the living version for our time.’ He lives in Sussex.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5266-9160-4 / 1526691604 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-9160-6 / 9781526691606 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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