Flora Watkins

What do we mean when we talk of ‘home’?

Though deeply attached to her ‘squat, odd-looking house’ near Uffington, Clover Stroud comes to realise that home is as much about bonds between people as a particular place

The Uffington White Horse, near Clover Stroud’s house in Oxfordshire. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 May 2024

  • The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go

    Clover Stroud

    Doubleday, pp. 336, £18

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