#constance holme

[josephinthepast]

'There were things people told you in letters which they never told in the flesh; things they felt for you when they wrote which they did not think of when you were by. And, once written, you had them to turn to, even if they never said them again. The very handwriting of those who loved you was in itself a loving speech...'

Constance Holme, The Things Which Belong (1925)

[liddilc]

‘Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams’

The moment I read these words, it felt like I was home once more, and the memories of all that I felt, reading this dearly loved novel over 30 years ago came flooding back. Crump Folk Going Home was the only work I have ever read of Constance Holme, a legacy passed down from my grandfather but it carved such a place in my heart that a part of me always felt incomplete when I lost the book several years later. For years, I tried to find a replacement copy but failed, so I cannot begin to describe what it meant when I finally held a copy in my hand once more and the prose I remembered so vividly and missed so dearly transported me back to the world of the Lyndesays with Crump the cornerstone of it all. There is a plaintiveness in the fabric of the tale, reticence, recklessness and restraint coalescing into a breathtaking narrative with characters that are remote yet strangely relatable - subtle yet devastatingly laid bare. It is a tale of loss and restoration, purpose and belonging, of being able to go home, and I love it now perhaps even more than when I first loved it as an impressionable young girl, with the lens that come with age and experience.

[cdchyld]

This listing is for a set of 4 books by Constance Holme. The World's Classics. All books are hardback Publisher - Oxford University Pres

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~ Set of 4 Constance Holme Books (1930s)

[josephinthepast]

"Most of us have our dream-houses somewhere, and plot and plan their future and ours together; and, whether we ever win to them or not with a signed conveyance, we have something of them always that is never set down in any legal bond."

Constance Holme, The Lonely Plough (1914)