{"id":12681,"date":"2019-05-03T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=12681"},"modified":"2019-05-03T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:02:24","slug":"postcards-get-a-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2019\/05\/03\/postcards-get-a-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards get a stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long awaited moment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, a little boy was colouring in church whilst his parents were busy with various jobs around the place. I stopped to ask him what he was working on, and he explained that this was the cover of a book he was going to write all about endangered species. The book had no content yet \u2013 but the cover was full of promise!<\/p>\n

In my experience, the cover is often the last piece of the writing puzzle to fall into place.\u00a0 In the case of \u2018Postcards\u2019<\/em> I could not be happier that it has been that way round.\u00a0 Husband and wife team Vivian Hansen <\/a>and Alejo Porras<\/a> have taken time to familiarise themselves with the book.\u00a0 They have accorded me the grace of walking through the landscape of grief in such a way as to understand it from my point of view. It is a curiously vulnerable thing to entrust a manuscript which has cost you so much to someone else to give it a face. I need not have worried – since it was clearly in very safe hands.<\/p>\n

The design features a tiny, plucky tree<\/a> which I encountered in Cornwall, on the last holiday Fiona and I ever took together.\u00a0 Battered and bashed by the strong winds blowing in from the coast at Port Quinn, it was holding its own.\u00a0 Twice I stopped to admire it, before getting my camera out on the third occasion. To see it fighting with the wind \u2013 and winning, inspired me then and inspires me now.<\/p>\n

\"Postcards<\/p>\n

When the book comes out on August 2nd<\/sup><\/strong>, you will find other illustrations by these talented designers inside.\u00a0 They will provide you with opportunities to pause and reflect as you walk through the book\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n

Not long to go now \u2013 and you can pre-order it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If I had one hope for this book – it is that it might become a beloved companion to those who are living in the land of grief, or those who are watching someone they love pass through it. This particular postcard comes ‘with love’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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