The Story Is

If its the beginning or the end it doesnt matter as long as you tell it all.Frank funny and poignant Kate B Halls new collection is a lifetime in the making. From her wartime beginnings as a difficult child to the tentative joy of early great-grandmotherhood the power in these poems shines through in the tension held between the tough and the tender.Finding no truth untouchable Hall squares up to mortality dementia and unloving mothers yet almost always unearths a seedling of hope growing amongst the wreckage. Resilient and playful to the last this is a book that loves hard a long-awaited chronicle from a well-loved writer.