[Reading] A Flat Place - Noreen Masud

I bought this in the nice indie bookshop in Norwich, because I love flat places, and also because I remember Masud when she was one of our DPhil students. In fact, A Flat Place is less a landscape book and more an exploration of trauma and recovery using Masud's affinity for flat landscapes as a focus. I enjoyed it, and found it quite thought-provoking, but it also felt really awkward reading a deeply personal memoir written by someone you still feel the lingering remains of a duty of care towards. And I would still like to read a book which is just an appreciation of the wonder of a wide-open space.