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Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three acclaimed novels and numerous collections of poetry, and was commissioned to create London's largest public art poem at Waterloo. Flatlands is inspired by Paul Gallico's classic wartime novella The Snow Goose. A Girl in White is also available from ONE.Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality.
- Amanda Craig,
Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling
- Toby Litt,
A haunting and lyrical novel about loneliness and the compensations of the natural world, art and unlikely friendships
- Maggie Brookes,
Precise in its historical detail and admirable in its evocation of the large skies and isolation of its setting, this is a moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world
Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction
A tender portrait of wartime youth [with] an elegiac, gentle quality, evoking the Wash as "a place between somewhere and nowhere, one of the last wildernesses in England". A novel of tender quiet voices, and grace
Guardian
Lovely... It's beautifully written, and if you choose to compare it to the Gallico original, which is now rather dated, an altogether more resounding experience
- Rosie Millard, The Arts Stack
A story full of grace and light
Le Monde
Vivid... successfully evokes the aching beauty of the bleak, watery landscape alive with bird life... A wartime parable of friendship and connection
Kirkus
A compelling story... ingenious and heartfelt
Perspective Magazine
Does an excellent job of conjuring the consolations that can be found from withdrawing into nature, where the changing of the seasons and the routines of the wildlife offer their own companionship... Hubbard's Lincolnshire Fens are imagined in all their bleakness and beauty. In the process, she reveals the depths of feeling that can be found in even the flattest places
The Tablet
The writing is stunning, twisting my heart so many times in its words. The marshlands beautifully described, the character's inner lives flayed open with great sensitivity. The novel asks the great questions of life, and it affirms the healing power of nature and art-and love
The Literate Quilter
I absolutely loved this... It has whizzed its way up my favourite books of the year list... The writing is delicate, lyrical, pastoral
bookphace
An enthralling novel that vividly maps the lay of a land and expertly evokes the tension of an era
Star Tribune
Praise for Sue Hubbard's previous work:
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Beautifully written and wholly knowledgeable... A triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: masterly, moving
Fay Weldon
A writer of genuine talent
- Elaine Feinstein,
Lyrical, highly visual and beautifully observed
- John Burnside,
A beautifully-written meditation on love, loss and grief
Irish Independent
Beautifully-written and evocative
- Amanda Craig,
Hubbard deserves a place in the literary pantheon near Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, and William Trevor
- American Library Association,
Gently absorbing ... Wistful but never morose
Daily Mail
Gorgeous... A haunting read
Star Tribune