Whispering Dust (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Dora Eldrid Reynolds</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1889-1958) - the daughter of artist poet and author Amy Dora Reynolds who wrote using the </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>nom de plume</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Mrs. Fred Reynolds - was an artist and author in her own right albeit one with a very brief career. In 1913 she published her second and final novel </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Whispering Dust</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> in which 33-year-old Naomi a curate's orphan and a curate's niece who after 30 years of living amongst grime and turnip fields and having done nothing journeys to Egypt to wander its streets tombs and desert in search of more of something intangible yet somehow just within reach of what she can only inadequately express as Space (with a capital S) - all while narrating the story to You a man whom she is quite certain she has invented and who does not exist . . . or does he? Rendered with vivid poetic prose and colorful descriptions that bring Egypt alive on the page </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Whispering Dust</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is an overlooked and forgotten gem of early modernist literature.</span></p>