Sue Hubbard - Depth of Field - Dewi Lewis Publishing

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			DEPTH OF FIELD Sue Hubbard ‘A very remarkable first novel.’ John Berger ‘Lyrical, highly visual and beautifully observed.’ John Burnside ‘Beautifully written.’ Martyn Goff ‘A writer of genuine talent.’ Elaine Feinstein Having grown up in the Home Counties, with her Jewish identity submerged and largely unidentified, Hannah experiences a sense of alienation and otherness. An early marriage to an emotionally repressed academic and their subsequent move to rural Somerset in search of the idyll of family life and self-suffiency, is shattered by her husband’s infidelity. Hannah returns to her embryonic career as a photographer, moving from the country to London’s East End – convinced that if she can find her roots, some connection with her grandparents’ Jewish past – that she will make sense of her life. A failed affair leads to a breakdown, and to her ex-husband gaining custody of her two children. Left alone to rebuild her life she begins to realise that we each have to construct our own lives. Identity is not dependent on spurious notions of ‘roots’ or ‘romance’. Depth of Field is an accute observation of the nature of identity and memory. Hannah’s close observation of the physical world, both in the country and the East End, embues it with a deep sense of both history and place. John Berger has described the novel as ‘highly evocative’ giving ‘the rare quality, not of a text, but of a place. It surrounds its readers and waits until they see in the dark to make their own discoveries.’ Writer, poet and art critic, Sue Hubbard has written regularly for Time Out, The New Statesman and Contemporary Visual Arts. Her debut poetry collection Everything Begins with the Skin was published by Enitharmon to great critical acclaim. She has won several awards and her work has been published in The Observer and The Independent as well as in several anthologies. She was the first Public Art Poet at the Poetry Society and her poem Eurydice, commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI for The South Bank, is London’s largest public art poem.
A paperback original £8.99 Softback ($13.95) 192 pages ISBN:1-899235-82-5 Available in the USA $13.95

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