Peter Fiennes: On Finding Hope in the Writing Process
Critically acclaimed author Peter Fiennes discusses his quest to find hope in his new travel/Greek mythology book, A Thing of Beauty.
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Critically acclaimed author Peter Fiennes discusses his quest to find hope in his new travel/Greek mythology book, A Thing of Beauty.
Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton Cottages in Lacock village, Wiltshire. Photograph: Dave Henrys/Alamy Years ago I came across a faded little volume in a secondhand bookshop near Salisbury: Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton, published during the first world war. Inside its pages a world opened before me: little lanes, silent villages, rivers that meandered through unspoilt landscapes of willow and elm. The books weren’t practical, but their idiosyncrasies were liberating Hutton was also gloriously opinionated. An upper middle-class Edwardian gentleman, his wr...