Non-Fiction Book Club: A Flat Place

Name: Non-Fiction Book Club: A Flat Place
Start: 2025-03-19T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Typewronger Books

Schedule

Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Typewronger Books | Edinburgh, SC

Join us for the discussion of
Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she has discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Morecambe Bay, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma.
Noreen suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.