The Story Is / Kate B Hall

‘A glorious mix of the historical, quotidian, humorous and tragic. Kate B Hall confronts the often-devastating realities of life and death with a surprising lightness of touch, a beguiling and intimate directness.’  Jacqueline Saphra

Frank, funny and poignant, Kate B Hall’s new collection is a lifetime in the making. From her wartime beginnings as a ‘difficult child’ to the tentative joy of early great-grandmotherhood, the power in these poems shines through in the tension held between the tough and the tender.

Finding no truth untouchable, Hall squares up to mortality, dementia and unloving mothers, yet almost always unearths a seedling of hope growing amongst the wreckage. Resilient and playful to the last, this is a book that loves hard, a long-awaited chronicle from a well-loved writer.

       If it’s the beginning or the end, it doesn’t matter as long as you tell it all.

PAPERBACK      ISBN: 978-1-9997147-3-4     PUBLISHED 20TH JUNE 2018