The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney

The Saint of Lost Things by Tish DelaneyI had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me have fresh cream cakes every Saturday. They're sweet enough to take the edge off. I hope they're enough to get me through being outed as a fraud. Turns out, I'm more my missing mother's daughter than anyone first suspected. There was a time when Lindy Morris escaped to London and walked along the Thames in the moonlight. When life was full and exciting.

a young midwife

It has been through name changes and revolutions

It belongs to families dead for generations

The Prophet is thought-provoking

he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention

through The Voyage Out readers will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine

life is unpredictable

From the earliest cave paintings - where the author finds a key to humankind's first dreams

the sense of yourself expanding to fill the emptiness of a whole lost world of human activity' - Anne Ortiz Talvaz

And why are we taught the opposite

'The most original book I've ever read'BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

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