A cunning woman is tried at Norwich Assizes, and at dawn her cell holds only a toad. A country gentleman records his wife’s decline in the flattest possible prose. A rector at Mannington opens the box he was warned to leave shut. A countess takes the train to London. Two boys ride to Ipswich for the football. Fog on the Wensum assembles a county out of the voices that passed through it – hymn, court report, diary, memoir, ballad, monograph – nineteen fragments running from the first Christian landfall to last night’s shift. Taylor’s third Norfolk collection is his most ambitious: a whole history, with no historian in it.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction