The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor magazine In seventh-century Ireland

In seventh-century Ireland

they roam from Salisbury to Helsinki

Three or four nights a week she didn’t sleep at all

Gnocchi with Caponata and Burrata Cream

this may be Hollinghurst’s “most beautiful” book yet

The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor magazine In seventh-century IrelandThis is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer whose haunting presence in Catherine's childhood was matched only by the aching absence of her own father. About a country thrown into disarray