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Though deeply attached to her ‘squat, odd-looking house’ near Uffington, Clover Stroud comes to realise that home is as much about bonds between people as a particular place

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go Clover Stroud

Doubleday, pp.336, 18.99

Given that I know the author, would I feel inhibited about reviewing her new book critically, I asked myself. But other than meeting her once at a party for two minutes, I realised that I know Clover Stroud only through her raw, ravishing memoirs and – like the rest of her 37,000 Instagram followers – the intimate and honest way in which she documents her life.

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