MIRACULOUSNESS OF ORDINARY

LOXTON,BEEJA

ISBN 10: 0957154577 / ISBN 13: 9780957154575

Edité par Faction Memoirs/Outright Fiction, 2024

N° de réf. du vendeur NWUS9780957154575

Synopsis :

The Miraculousness of the Ordinary - Outright Fiction's first faction memoir of 2024


In THE MIRACULOUSNESS OF THE ORDINARY no idea is off the table, from what eucalyptus seeds have to teach us about our relationship with time, to Japanese farming methods, to compiling a dictionary of lost words.

Naomi Klein, in her letter to the Prisoners of Conscience in the UK, wrote of climate arson and unfettered greed, and of why principled direct action in defence of planetary life is essential to break the spell that is setting our world on fire. Beeja Loxton read those words with a rattling YES - GO GIRL in her head.

Although Beeja longs to find her backpacking companion, Luca Fabiani, set against her heart's desire is a sense of duty – to stay put, to teach ethics, to write a novel and to help others develop a principled relationship with the landscape and the natural world.

As a young girl Beeja walked with Grandpa Si through the fields and woodlands of his farm, they would amble together hand-in-hand, spotting iridescent blue streaks of kingfisher moving at near to the speed of light, and they would listen for the unseen – the splash of a jumping fish re-entering the river, or the echoing double crow of a pheasant clattering to clear the canopy, or the tic-tic-tic of a wren, invisible in the hedgerow.

It was during those times that Beeja buddied up with nature, a friendship that would help ease the demands of a changing world, and the stress that perhaps we now all feel, living as we do in a climate emergency.

So, we join Beeja as she returns home from a year's backpacking and begins to expose a level of skulduggery amongst her local village population in the South West of England. An in-group of racketeering neighbours are hell bent on the desecration of an ancient moor and its wetland environment, and they need to be stopped.

À propos de l'auteur:

Beeja Loxton is twenty-seven years old, was born in Bristol and grew up in the small village of Zeal Monachorum in Devon. She holds a degree in Politics and a masters in Philosophy. She lectures in Ethics at a West Country Academy and is entitled to call herself a Commander, by virtue of being licenced by the Civil Aviation Authority to pilot hot air balloons. The Miraculousness of the Ordinary is Beeja Loxton's debut novel and the first title published by Outright Fiction under the Faction Memoirs imprint.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : MIRACULOUSNESS OF ORDINARY
Éditeur : Faction Memoirs/Outright Fiction
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : NEW