Fiction
Category: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 191
ISBN: 9781854113672
Publication date: March 7, 2005
Price: £6.99
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Richard Collins’ debut novel is a dreamlike meditation on land and sea and the illusory nature of love. Two friends work together on a smallholding: one allows the other to read the novel he is writing, ‘The Land as Viewed from the Sea’. As the novel unfolds, fiction begins to intrude upon reality, redefining the friends’ relationship, and threatening to change their lives forever.
“Fresh, surprising and ambitious … Richard Collins’ dark-hearted love story is a gripping tale that unfolds with immense narrative skill.” – The Whitbread First Novel Award Judges
Richard Collins
Richard Collins was, among other things, a farm labourer, gardener and estate worker. He lived with his family in west Wales and taught at the Institute of Rural Sciences in Llanbadarn for Aberystwyth University. His debut novel for Seren, The Land as Viewed from the Sea (2004), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize. His other works include two further novels: Overland (2006) and The Quality of Light (2011), and a travel book/memoir The Road to Zagora (2015) about his response to being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
