Accidentals celebrates occasions and instances seen in the perspective of a whole lifetime, bringing together a disparate range of subjects — among them, capsizing a small boat in a North Sea gale; two visits to Petra, thirty-eight years apart; the paintings of Samuel Palmer; lighthouses; favourite films; seahorses; Voltaire’s Candide. Enriched by Erica Sail’s drawings and some of the author’s poems, the book still keeps at its centre a single life lived — one where, as Lawrence Sail writes, ‘the role of the accidental, in more than one sense of the word, has been much more prominent than I had realised […] A life in which the contingent plays such a part may come closer to farce more often than its leaseholder would like to admit, but at least the admission may ward off hubris’.
- ISBN13 9781911293514
- Publish Date 15 December 2020
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 September 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Impress Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 222
- Language English