House with the Mansard Roof by Frances Sackett Asiya Wadud Many first appeared in magazines

Many first appeared in magazines such as The Spectator

Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale

from world-renowned and lesser-known poets

Bracho gradually reveals her mother's inimitably strong

and a sharp-eyed man will do

House with the Mansard Roof by Frances Sackett Asiya Wadud Many first appeared in magazinesIn her enthralling third collection, Frances Sackett examines the hidden histories emerging from the land. We meet the Yde Girl, found abandoned in a peat bog in the Netherlands; a ghostly ship and its hidden treasures excavated near Sutton Hoo; and a sunken forest discovered off the Welsh coast. There are poems with fierce empathy for women living in war torn countries, some in exile, some in isolation, and a sequence for a mother separated from her