Claudia Hampton
at worst deadly
Weaving a tapestry of human experience over seven decades
looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria
she becomes more and more convinced that she's being followed - sighting a motorbike exactly like Danny's everywhere she goes
Gavin Mccrea: Cells: memories for my mother [2022] hardback Condition:New Claudia Hampton'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down,' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what I intended to bring up,