Dartmoor
Chasing happiness: The Daffodil Days, by Helen Bain, reviewed
Leaving London with her husband and daughter to make a new home on the edge of Dartmoor, Sylvia Plath longs for ‘everything to be perfect… and hasn’t learned yet that, in life, nothing can be’
Women on the warpath
One thing that Covid lockdown made us appreciate was the importance of being outdoors. When we were finally allowed into…
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Semi-recluse (me) seeks dilapidated cottage on Dartmoor to rent
So now I must find somewhere else to put my books and live sometimes. Dartmoor, I thought: one of the…
Bogs and fogs
In his poem ‘Eden Rock’, Charles Causley conjures up a dreamy memory of a childhood picnic ‘somewhere beyond Eden Rock’.…
Real life
After four hours of driving, we should have been in the middle of Dartmoor. And yet we were not. We…
Four years of war
Kate Chisholm on the BBC’s ambitious new radio series
The call of the wild
‘No, no’ I said, when The Spectator’s literary editor rang up, ‘I’m sure you must be able to find someone…
Low life
‘How was your journey?’ I said. In summer, the place next door is let to visitors on a weekly basis.…
