Talk of Virginia Woolf today and I think a most appropriate selection from the dovegreyreader stocking to yours in today's prize draw. In fact I think Virginia might just have loved this one too, so another very favourite book from this year's reading list, and many thanks to Bloomsbury for a prize draw copy of The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift.
You may recall I bemoaned the lack of a ribbon but don't let that put you off, just have some ribbons at the ready. It's a beautiful treasure of a book that can be read over and again and dipped into at random and I have grown to love opening it. It has been on my bedside
table all year, sprouting a veritable flowerbed of ribbons of my own
choosing.
The garden created around the Benedictine Hours of the Divine Office and in the words of Katherine Swift,
' I began to see the whole landscape was a book, if only one could read it - a manuscript written and rewritten, over and over again, a palimpsest of texts, decipherable still...'
Tell me that Virginia wouldn't have adored a book that suggested this,
'Theirs was a world where time was accounted for, each second precious: instead of hearing, one listened; instead of seeing, one looked; instead ot tasting, one savoured; instead of touching, one felt. 'Listen,' said St Benedict, 'listen with the ear of your heart.'
Names in comments if you'd like the chance of winning a copy of The Morville Hours to cherish and Bloomsbury will very kindly post Rocky will deliver worldwide.
