THE NEW DRESS

‘Waking I cry “Oh is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beautiful strange and pioneering each piece is a small precious stone to be held to the light and savoured.