Using archival artwork from award-winning illustrator Eleanor Crow, who designed the artwork for the original publication, this Members Edition is a 750 run, all signed by the author and featuring bespoke signature page and endpapers. The Edition is printed on premium wood-free paper and bound in fine linen cloth with black head and tail bands and black ribbon marker.
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their
mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy
romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him.
This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marked the arrival of a thrilling and significant talent.