They bring their two dogs - Pip, a lurcher, and Voss, a terrier - with them and live a simple life supported by social welfare payments and dwindling savings.Īfter the excitement of moving in together for the first time (the pair met at a party), taking minimal furniture and an odd assortment of belongings with them, their lives quickly settle into a routine. Set over the course of seven years, it tells the quiet, contemplative story of Bell (Isabel) and Sigh (Simon), who both ditch their menial city jobs - Bell waiting tables, Sigh packaging TVs in a factory - to move into a rental house, “a drab, roofed box girdled by countryside” at the bottom of a mountain. The rhythms of nature and the passing of time are the central themes in Sara Baume’s latest novel Seven Steeples. Fiction – Kindle edition Tramp Press 288 pages 2022.
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