Linda Cracknell écrit des nouvelles, des romans et de la non-fiction créative, explorant souvent les paysages complexes de l'émotion et de la connexion humaine. Sa prose se caractérise par un œil d'observation aiguisé et une qualité lyrique, attirant les lecteurs dans les subtiles complexités de la vie intérieure de ses personnages. La voix distinctive de Cracknell et son examen réfléchi des relations et du monde naturel l'établissent comme une présence littéraire significative. Son œuvre invite à la contemplation, offrant une perspective unique sur les expériences humaines partagées.
Diverse worlds and complex characters define this collection, showcasing Linda Cracknell's talent for weaving multi-layered narratives filled with longing and loss. Each story offers a profound exploration of life, blending surreal elements with stark realities. Readers are invited to take a 'searching glance' into the intricate lives of the characters, leaving a lasting impression that resonates long after the last page.
The history of a Perthshire woollen mill told through the lives of those locked in and out of its walls, their stories tied together by the impact of industrialisation on rural Scotland and the struggle for women's rights.
Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, sleeping high up in the hills, or being slapped by salt water can all be part of her process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to "Love words, agonize over sentences and pay attention to the world." In this varied collection of essays, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland at low tide, musing on the nineteenth-century Scottish writer whose character was shipwrecked there. She hikes the wooded mountain trail close to her home in winter snow--a place she is intimately familiar with in all weathers and seasons--and she retraces the steps of a multiday hike made almost seven decades after her parents trod the route together. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work. Reading this collection will open your eyes to the world around you and how you can observe, take note, and later commit those notes and memories to written pieces that will evoke the place and time.
Past and present converge as Linda Cracknell doubles back to walk in the footsteps of others. Across Norway, Kenya, and the northerly islands of Skye in Scotland and Lindisfarne in England, Doubling Back traces the contours of history. Following paths long mythologized by writers and relatives gone before, Linda Cracknell charts how places immortalized in writing and memory create portals; wrinkles in time and geography that allow us to recreate journeys of others moving at a slow and steady pace, on foot. Join Linda as she traverses the dangerous crevasses of the Swiss Alps to retrace the mountaineering past of the father she barely knew. Walk with her as she follows the escape route of a Norwegian scientist on the run in the Second World War, or as she simply celebrates the joy found in the 'friendly paths' of her local, regular terrain, and the rhythms and ritual of returning home. Published in the UK to rave reviews and serialized on BBC radio, this beautifully rendered account of walking and memory helps us to locate ourselves in time and space and to reflect on our future on this fragile Earth.