Published to mark the 30th anniversary of The Great Storm of October 1987, Windblown is in the best tradition of English writing about our relationship with the natural world.
The Great Storm of 1987 is etched firmly into the national memory. Everyone who was there that night remembers how hurricane force winds struck southern Britain without warning, claiming eighteen lives, uprooting more than fifteen million trees and reshaping the landscape for future generations. Thirty years on, the discovery of an old photograph inspires the author to make a journey into that landscape: weaving her own memories and personal experiences with those of fishermen and lighthouse keepers, rough sleepers and refugees, she creates a unique portrait of this extraordinary event and a moving exploration of legacy and loss.
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Tamsin Treverton Jones is a Stroud based writer and poet. She studied French at Bristol University and went on to be Head of Press at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre and Bath Literature Festival. She has produced and presented features for radio, programmed literary events for digital broadcast and published two oral histories for The History Press.
Windblown is published by Hodder and Stoughton and available now in all good book shops and on-line. Pick up this month's issue (out now!) to read an interview with the author by Jill MacKeith.
Tamsin will also be appearing at the Lansdown Hall on Sunday 5th November as part of the Stroud Book Festival. Visit stroudbookfestival.org.uk for tickets and further info...