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From the Sunday Times bestseller of The Red of my Blood and My Wild and Sleepless Nights comes an inspiring memoir about home family and belonging In the Giant on the Skyline Stroud has produced something exceptional a mystical meditatation on what home means and what constitutes belonging It is magical and haunting and profoundly moving Spectator Stroud s best book yet candid primal irresistibly intense Julie Myerson Full of personality humour and heart I did not want it to end Lily Dunn One of the books we re most looking forward to in 2024 Good Housekeeping What is it that makes a home What is a home without the roots that tie you to a place What is a home when a family is split Clover s eldest children are leaving home for university Her husband Pete s work is in America The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC Forced to leave the home she loves Clover sets out to explore the place where she lives understand the history of her landscape and work out why it is that it is so hard for her to go In this profound and moving memoir Sunday Times bestselling author Clover Stroud paints a beauti