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Originally Posted by issybird
Totally clueless here, as I was waiting until this upcoming weekend to start Shepherd's Life. It's a book that's been on my TBR for a while and that was my sole inspiration. Ah, synchronicity!
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The synchronicity goes deeper. Your book blurb includes
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Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations,
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The Shepherd's Life the author observes: "They say you have to be here for three generations before you are a ‘local’..." and I think the two ideas are linked.
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The Shepherd's Life, there is a lot of talk about traditions, and about the lack of written record. Which had led me to think about how we relate to the past - and the memory of our oldest generation. You get to see this in action in some of what James Rebanks has written.