Benjamin Myers: The Offing
A wandering across 1950s Yorkshire leads to a summer of food, poetry and friendship
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Gilly Smith
April 23, 202034m 23s
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Show Notes
This week Gilly Smith chats (remotely) with award-winining author, Benjamin Myers whose success with his previous novels, particularly The Gallows Pole has given him the accolade of the most powerful new voices in literature. In this, his eighth novel, The Offing, he tells a Homeric tale of Robert, a 16 year old boy who sets out across 1950’s Yorkshire to Robin Hood’s Bay and finds a gloriously long summer of food, poetry and an unlikely freidnship with an eccentric and artistic older woman called Dulcie.
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