House with the Mansard Roof

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"Frances Sackett discovers hidden history emerging from the land as we meet 'The Yde Girl', found in a peat bog in Holland, or the ghostly ship and treasure excavated at Sutton Hoo, or a forest from beneath the sea in Wales. There are poems with fierce empathy for women from war-torn countries determined to survive as exiles. Also, the feelings of a mother, parted from her young daughter, moving to another country. Many poems show Sackett's love of the landscape, the night sky, country stations and other poets. Humour, found in unlikely places such as a medieval manuscript or a class on Milton's 'Paradise Lost', provides a playful contrast to the more serious themes in a witty, often wry, way."--