Bird Cloud

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.

Reviews

‘Proulx’s prose is monumental’ Observer
'Magic … Books are like homes and within 10 pages of crossing the threshold of this one readers will put up their feet, secure in the knowledge that they won’t be moving on to another any time soon ' Geoff Dyer, Observer
‘A love letter to place…which interweaves details of the land’s daily upkeep with her own equally evocative history’ Vogue
A masterpiece’ A. N. Wilson