Lancashire, 1930. Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, & since her mother died years ago it
... Little Hedgehog is delighted when he wakes up to find it is raining.
At last he can try out his lovely new raincoat,
Completing the author's cycle of family poems, this book is at once intense & harmonic, playful with language, & rich with self-awareness & sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humour, anger, & compassion sing together with lyric energy.