June — Helen May Williams
ISBN: 9781788649094
£10.99
Based in part on the author’s mother’s handwritten memoirs, this novel is an act of bricolage in which the narrator keeps finding gaps in the materials. We desire to regain the past, but every time we attempt it we fabricate it anew. Through various narrative voices, the author discovers a different sense of her mother than she held during her lifetime. This is a type of biographical revisionism. We cannot know the past, especially that of our mothers, but we can re-member them. Meticulously researched, this book constitutes an extended meditation on the strength of memory and its fallibility.
Author biography
Helen May Williams formerly taught at Warwick University and, as Helen May Dennis, has written extensively on twentieth-century poetry. She is also the author of Catstrawe (Cinnamon Press 2019) and The Princess of Vix (Three Drops Press 2017). Her parallel text translation of Michel Onfray’s Before Silence is published by The High Window Press (2020). Helen is a Cinnamon Pencil mentor.
Discover more on Helen’s website and Amazon page