Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
Patch Work by Claire Wilcox
Why I have it: Not sure.
Summary: A linen sheet, smooth with age. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes. Wilcox, curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, stitches together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes.
I’m thinking: Yes (she writes beautifully).
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Why I have it: Saw the theatre production, interested to read the book.
Summary: Simpson’s terrifying account of his climb in the Peruvian Andes when his climbing partner, Simon, was forced to cut the rope holding an injured Simpson, leaving him for dead.
I’m thinking: Yes.
One Friday in April by Donald Antrim
Why I have it: Not sure.
Summary: Antrim’s personal account of suicide, which he classes as an illness – not an act – and that is experienced quite differently to depression.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Patch Work sounds excellent, I’d not heard of it. I’ve seen the film of Touching the Void, which I can recommend.
I’m keen to read the Antrim. It sounds like Darkness Visible, which I read last year.
Patch Work sounds lovely.