To the River, To the Sea: Olivia Laing and Jean Sprackland
Olivia Laing came to the bookshop to talk about her book 'To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface' - shortlisted for the 2012 Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year - with Jean Sprackland, who won the 2012 Portico Prize for...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 23, 20121h 10m
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Show Notes
'To the River' is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf’s river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Olivia came to the bookshop to talk about 'To the River' with Jean Sprackland, who won the 2012 Portico Prize for non-fiction for 'Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach', a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool.
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