Author: Amina Cain
Publisher: Daunt Books
Paperback
Staff Pick! Sam says...
This new book on writing, by novelist Amina Cain, has a dawn-like quality, illuminated by that associative clarity that you feel just after you wake, and which haunts you for the rest of the day. In a series of short chapters which read like exploded diary entries, she unearths gems from the writers who have informed her art and her life, and holds them up to the light. Questing, curious and partial, this is the perfect Christmas read for anyone in your life who needs permission to spend a bit more time in pursuit of beauty.