The Gift: Novel Paperback – August 1, 2014

Very inspirational. H.D.'s search back through her childhood revealed an amazing journey through an imaginative world and how she saw life as she grew. This journey helped her survive bombings in England during the war.

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With a modernist concentration on perception, H. D. presents her memories from her early childhood in a vivid and sensitive way, accurately reflecting the fragmented vision of a child in a family at once bourgeois and extraordinary. Worth reading even if only as a starting point to find out more about the history of the Moravians and about Bryher, H. D. 's longstanding lover and herself one of the crucial figures of modernism.