Sally Bayley’s The Green Lady is a beguiling, experimental mixture of biography, fiction and family history. In her excellent memoir Girl with Dove (2018), she wrote about her neglected childhood in the coastal Sussex town of Littlehampton. Here she returns to the same locality, but considers her forebears, embroidering episodes from her own rackety childhood
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Writing in the year of lockdown, writers remember their paths and paces. Extract from Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories, edited by Duncan Minshull.