‘A wonderful, wise, magical book… The Giant on the Skyline is really quite incredible.’
Rachael Lucas
‘Timeless and yet firmly rooted in time, magical and mysterious and yet earthy and sensual.’
Lily Dunn
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What is it that makes a home? What is a home without the roots that tie you to a place? What is a home when a family is split?
Clover's eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Pete's work is in America. The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC. Forced to leave the home she loves and consider these questions, Clover sets out to explore the place where she lives, walk the Ridgway, understand a little of the history of her landscape and work out why it is that it is so hard for her to go. In doing so she paints a beautifully layered portrait of family, community and of belonging in a landscape that has drawn people to it for generation after generation.
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‘A beautiful book, written in lyrical, liquid prose that seems to flow straight from the heart to the page.’
Sophy Roberts
‘Few writers I know have this intense intimacy, or such an immediately engaging effect on a reader. It really is magic.’
Lucy Atkins
‘Clover’s most profound and moving, and unquestionably her most soaringly beautiful…’
Juliet Nicolson
Praise for Clover Stroud
'A fearless explorer of the human heart.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
'Clover's writing is sensationally beautiful.'
Laura Cumming
'Stroud's writing is knife-sharp, beautiful and profound.'
Madeline Miller
'I love Clover Stroud's writing. It feels like she's mining for treasure, drilling down with lyrical prose, getting to the thing that makes us human.'
Christie Watson
"A deeply felt meditation on home, belonging, place and memory … Restless, questing, The Giant on the Skyline is a travel book about wanting to stay put: a pilgrimage through a fabled English landscape … Stroud’s best memoir yet, the most invigoratingly expansive, strikingly written. Moving … Transformative." - Daily Mail
"Stroud writes gloriously… a deeply thoughtful exploration of the meaning of home and belonging." - i News
"Perhaps more than any other writer, Stroud has taken the elegant, elliptical memoir and forged it into the genre of life writing … In the Giant on the Skyline, Stroud has produced something exceptional: a mystical meditatation on what home means and what constitutes belonging … It is magical and haunting and profoundly moving. Stroud is exceptionally evocative when writing about nature and family … even grungy Wantage with its Greggs and charity shops sounds alluring the way Stroud describes it." - Spectator
"Stroud’s writing is assured, visceral, sexy as well as sensuous, richly coloured in every way, and often freshly poetic, whether dealing with a toddler’s tears over the broccoli touching the gravy, or with death and loss. She paints her way through the book with striking word pictures … Orgasmic time, druids, gentle giants… The reader swirls like a leaf on a stream, coming out amazed by the richness – and unknownness – of other people’s lives." - The Oldie
"One of the books we're most looking forward to in 2024: I'm a huge fan of Clover Stroud's writing and this memoir about home and what it means to us sounds fascinating." - Good Housekeeping
"Stroud captures raw emotion, capturing themes of adventure, grief and the healing power of nature. Her latest book is a heartfelt meditation on what makes a home." - Woman & Home
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Rachael Lucas
‘Timeless and yet firmly rooted in time, magical and mysterious and yet earthy and sensual.’
Lily Dunn
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What is it that makes a home? What is a home without the roots that tie you to a place? What is a home when a family is split?
Clover's eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Pete's work is in America. The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC. Forced to leave the home she loves and consider these questions, Clover sets out to explore the place where she lives, walk the Ridgway, understand a little of the history of her landscape and work out why it is that it is so hard for her to go. In doing so she paints a beautifully layered portrait of family, community and of belonging in a landscape that has drawn people to it for generation after generation.
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‘A beautiful book, written in lyrical, liquid prose that seems to flow straight from the heart to the page.’
Sophy Roberts
‘Few writers I know have this intense intimacy, or such an immediately engaging effect on a reader. It really is magic.’
Lucy Atkins
‘Clover’s most profound and moving, and unquestionably her most soaringly beautiful…’
Juliet Nicolson
Praise for Clover Stroud
'A fearless explorer of the human heart.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
'Clover's writing is sensationally beautiful.'
Laura Cumming
'Stroud's writing is knife-sharp, beautiful and profound.'
Madeline Miller
'I love Clover Stroud's writing. It feels like she's mining for treasure, drilling down with lyrical prose, getting to the thing that makes us human.'
Christie Watson
"A deeply felt meditation on home, belonging, place and memory … Restless, questing, The Giant on the Skyline is a travel book about wanting to stay put: a pilgrimage through a fabled English landscape … Stroud’s best memoir yet, the most invigoratingly expansive, strikingly written. Moving … Transformative." - Daily Mail
"Stroud writes gloriously… a deeply thoughtful exploration of the meaning of home and belonging." - i News
"Perhaps more than any other writer, Stroud has taken the elegant, elliptical memoir and forged it into the genre of life writing … In the Giant on the Skyline, Stroud has produced something exceptional: a mystical meditatation on what home means and what constitutes belonging … It is magical and haunting and profoundly moving. Stroud is exceptionally evocative when writing about nature and family … even grungy Wantage with its Greggs and charity shops sounds alluring the way Stroud describes it." - Spectator
"Stroud’s writing is assured, visceral, sexy as well as sensuous, richly coloured in every way, and often freshly poetic, whether dealing with a toddler’s tears over the broccoli touching the gravy, or with death and loss. She paints her way through the book with striking word pictures … Orgasmic time, druids, gentle giants… The reader swirls like a leaf on a stream, coming out amazed by the richness – and unknownness – of other people’s lives." - The Oldie
"One of the books we're most looking forward to in 2024: I'm a huge fan of Clover Stroud's writing and this memoir about home and what it means to us sounds fascinating." - Good Housekeeping
"Stroud captures raw emotion, capturing themes of adventure, grief and the healing power of nature. Her latest book is a heartfelt meditation on what makes a home." - Woman & Home
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