Tired Blue Mountain - Kathrine Sowerby

“Kathrine Sowerby works language like a painter, shaping an impasto of wisdom and bewilderment in which ‘everything is possible’: for a young woman dying in the snow, for characters named Apple, Sun and Meaning, for black cats, for children and our feverish attempts to raise them well, to raise them safely. Tired Blue Mountain has a synesthetic wonder and delight in the colours of grief and magic, it is a fearless search for love and understanding.” Mark Russell