“Time Song” is a meditation on what people are truly looking for when they turn to the past
Jonathan Cape; 304 pages; £25. To be published in America by Pantheon in August; $26.95.the sea is to be reminded of absences. Bones, mammoth tusks, fossilised creatures and even ghostly footprints are washed up on the beach or uncovered under layers of sand, hinting at generations of bygone residents, human and animal. The coastline of East Anglia in England has inspired many writers, notably W.G. Sebald, a German who walked and meditated on its history.
But it is in her descriptions of the sea and her imaginings of the land it submerged that Ms Blackburn’s book is most arresting. In her evocation of Doggerland, and how it may have looked or felt before being flooded by rising seas around 8,000 years ago, she is quick to see a parallel with modern climate change:
“Time Song” is not overtly political. Brexit is mentioned only briefly, despite the obvious echo of Britain once again trying to sever connections with the adjacent landmass. But it is deeply concerned about the environment, and how people treat and remember the landscape.
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