Simon Moreton – Where?
It has taken me a long time to get to part 4 of Where? by Simon Moreton. Between moving house, settling in, and getting carried away with other reading materials, the book has sat unread on my bedside table for too long.
Where? is a beautiful memoir that explores life and death by weaving in and out of history, landscape, and personal stories. Written with prose, comics, photos, found archival text, and drawings, it is an engrossing experience to get into.
Seamlesly meandering through time and space, Simon Moreton, has crafted a memoir that expands from his personal life to the ones of ghosts long gone.
Rooted in Shropshire, it reminds us of the importance of place. Being an expat myself, the importance of a physical space to inhabit and of the story of that place has been central to my life for the past ten years.
Moving houses six times since my arrival in the UK, one of the constant of my life has been the ground under my feet and the histories of those spaces. By carving my path in those histories, I have learned to belong. Simon’s work taps into my need of a solid place in a world that can feel too virtual and ungrounded.
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