Ramlin Rose:
The Boatwoman's story
I love this book. I read my mother’s copy years ago and I picked it up again to dip into as part of a research project for my current novel, and I haven’t been able to put it down since. Sheila Stewart gives Rose such a distinctive voice that you are hooked from the first page.
Rose’s narrative is a fascinating, unsentimental account of the life (and death) of the men and women who worked ours canals during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. It vividly recreates their culture, traditions, hardships and tragedies. But it also reveals the incredible love, pride and strong-bond between this close-knit, free-floating community who were isolated from land-locked Britain for generations.
Thoroughly recommended.
Rose’s narrative is a fascinating, unsentimental account of the life (and death) of the men and women who worked ours canals during the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. It vividly recreates their culture, traditions, hardships and tragedies. But it also reveals the incredible love, pride and strong-bond between this close-knit, free-floating community who were isolated from land-locked Britain for generations.
Thoroughly recommended.
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