Horatio Clare

A poet finds home in a patch of nettles

After separating from her partner, Nancy Campbell installs herself in a caravan between a canal and railway line east of Oxford

Nancy Campbell. [Alamy]

  • Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another

    Nancy Campbell

    Elliot & Thompson, pp. 223, £14

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