Journal of a Solitude Orion Book Award Nominee (2009) Strategic Soothsaying

Strategic Soothsaying

‘Sahib’ is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India

I want to hold your hand knowing I’ll have to let it go one day

flirtation and digression

As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion

Journal of a Solitude Orion Book Award Nominee (2009) Strategic SoothsayingIn this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasand throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. "I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strangethat friends, even passionate love,are not my real