A Line Drawn or Printed

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marshall has created something remarkable. Writing with intellectual lucidity carving out her narrative in spare elegant prose she elicits an almost visceral emotional response...An excoriatingly triumphantly honest new voice.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Anna Beer </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eve Bites Back</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Death of an Englishman</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The deft writing and often confessional tone make it startlingly deliciously personal yet the changes of pace and point of view sometimes into fiction sometimes into brief word bites or prose images save it from being a typical memoir...This is a sown quilt of memories and sensations laid out for us or perhaps over us...This has the makings of a cult classic.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- James Hartley </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Madrid Review</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>* * *</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life journeys us whether we want it to or not. But it's up to us what we do with those unexpected and sometimes startling pivots.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The essays and stories in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Line Drawn or Printed</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trace the physical and emotional journeying of a woman who moves from the UK to Madrid in midlife seeking reinvention adventure and meaning.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Against the backdrop of the sensuous Spanish capital and following the soft hum of commuter trains the book maps the city through themes of love the body leave-taking cities and choosing to be other.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With poetic precision and disarming honesty the essays explore how places and events etch themselves into our identity - and how meaning is often found not in an endpoint but in the act of moving through.</span></p>