The Little I Knew Cheryl Pearson Belinda Cooke on Sailor's Home:

Belinda Cooke on Sailor's Home: A Miscellany of Poetry

But rebellious and outspoken Marta has other ideas: she mistrusts the therapist and is determined to escape from the hospital during the building refurbishment

to the collective – humanity’s ‘bad choices piling up like debts’ – Burns is everywhere concerned with consequence and responsibility

high-profile offering in these times of social isolation

to those familial presences who linger with instructions for the writer

The Little I Knew Cheryl Pearson Belinda Cooke on Sailor's Home:In Scauri, an end of the line seaside town forty miles or so from Rome, Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath. Whilst the townsfolk meet the event with sad but respectful southern Italian silence, Lea, the town lawyer, wants to investigate. Who was Vittoria, what were her secrets, why had she mysteriously arrived in Scauri thirty years earlier? And was her relationship with Lea all that it seemed? In this unforgettable portrait of a small town and