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A beautiful book. I must confess I adore books which eulogise a lost, perfect Summer. ' The Offing ' contained echoes of ' A Month in the Country ' by J.L. Carr , and ' The Go-Between ' by L.P. Hartley , which, as you probably already know, is a very good portent. This particular Summer is shortly after the Leggi tutto

Das nenne ich Mal Einstieg ins neue Lesejahr, direkt mit einem 5 Sterne Roman. Ich liebe dieses Buch, die unfassbar schöne Sprache und die Geschichte von Robert,der noch nicht so genau weiss,wo er hin soll,zu einer Zeit die unsicher ist und geprägt von den Nachfolgen eines schrecklichen Krieges. Er Leggi tutto

The writing in this was so beautiful that I'm tempted to award five stars, but I can't get past the fact that the fate of Dulcie's lover - so obvious from the early chapters - was kept a 'secret' until around two-thirds into the book. This had a roll-on effect on the book's pacing and the story as a Leggi tutto

This is one of those novels that evokes a time and has someone looking back to that time. It bears comparison to Carr’s A Month in the Country and The Go-Between by Hartley. It is set just after the Second World War. Sixteen year old Robert Appleyard lives in a mining village in the north east Engla Leggi tutto

I wanted very much to enjoy this book, to really sink into it. It seemed like a good moment to read a heartwarming tale of a golden summer and life lessons learned between an older woman and a teenage boy. I have been craving depictions of the natural world, and I spent most of my childhood holidays Leggi tutto

For such a prolific writer, Myers sets very high standards. His last novel before this one was the wonderful The Gallows Pole , and between them he also published a beautiful non-fiction book about his adopted home in the Calder Valley, Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place . So this one had a lot to Leggi tutto

With our current political preoccupations concerning citizenship, immigration and nationality there’s a lot of talk about borders. (What borders will be formed between the UK and Europe?) But in Benjamin Myers’ recent novel “The Offing” the borders directly referenced are invisible lines in the natu Leggi tutto

>>...Wandere lange genug mit offenen Augen durch die Welt, dann fängst du irgendwann an, Entdeckungen zu machen. Bei großen Reisen geht es nie nur um das Ziel.<< „Offene See“ von Benjamin Myers ist ein Buch, das mich wirklich zutiefst berührt und vollends bewegt hat. Wir begleiten hier den jungen Rob Leggi tutto

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | “That distant stretch of sea where sky and water merge. It’s called the offing.” Written in a verdant prose Benjamin Myers’ novel is an ode to nature. The Offing is narrated by the son of a miner from Durham, Robert Appleyard, who, in his old age, finds himself looking Leggi tutto

The Offing, by Benjamin Myers, is written in prose that is as mesmerising as poetry. The author conjures up a potent sense of place, rendering the beauty and power of nature alongside man’s small place in it. The tale is humbling but also uplifting. This is writing to be savoured. The story is narrat Leggi tutto