“One of the most interesting and original young British writers about landscape, culture and people that I know; consistently adventurous in his explorations of place as a novelist, essayist, critic and film-maker.”
– Robert Macfarlane
“Adam Scovell is an archaeologist of the imagination, forever unearthing stories like treasure from the soil, raising ghosts, finding links and shining a flickering light into England’s hidden corners.”
– Benjamin Myers
Alone in Strasbourg, Isabelle receives news of her father's suicide back home and misses her flight back to London,. Obsessed with the strange coincidences in Strasbourg's turbulent history, she seeks to slowly dissolve into the past, succumbing to dreams she allows the spectres of Europ to guide her.
How Pale the Winter Has Made Us rummages through the crumbling ruins of a life, building cartographies of place and death under a darkening sky.