Love Letters on the River
Parthian Books (Verlag)
9781913830847 (ISBN)
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From a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her back door and cut it very fine to fledge their chicks into an assorted audience of cats and magpies.
This collection of essays, beautifully illustrated throughout, are each of them love letters to the Teifi valley and to the river that winds through Carly’s days. The wild animals — the badgers who visit nightly for peanuts; the juvenile osprey who learned to fish on the estuary across the lane; the young jackdaw she nurtured until it was healthy enough to ignore her whenever she went into the garden; the cuckoos she discovered in flagrante one afternoon on a lockdown walk — are the very heart of it.
Carly Holmes lives and writes in a small village on the banks of the river Teifi in west Wales. She is the author of the novels The Scrapbook, which was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award, and Crow Face, Doll Face. Her short story collection,Figurehead, was published by Tartarus Press in limited edition hardback and reprinted in paperback by Parthian Books. She has had numerous stories published in journals and anthologies.
Foreword
BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL:
Mating Cuckoos by Foxhill Farm
Juvenile Osprey on the Teifi Estuary
Skydancing Ravens at Cwm Gwaun
Nightjar at Cross Inn Forest
Bittern at the Teifi Marshes
IN THE GARDEN:
Runty
Tapdancing Tawny Owls
Steak Dinner for Four
Des Res
Pumpkin Eyes
The Bereft Sparrowhawk
Dawn Chorus
BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL:
Winter Barn Owl over the Teifi Marshes
Hobbies at Cors Caron
Swifts at the Watch House
Racing Swans on the Teifi
Murmurating Starlings over the Teifi Marshes
Crossbills at Pantmaenog Forest
Afterword
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2026 |
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| Illustrationen | Guy Manning |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Cardigan |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781913830847 / 9781913830847 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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