Bøger af Adam Scovell

Nettles is a powerful exploration of memory and violence, excavating the stories we tell ourselves to escape our past.

For more than a decade, writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell has been preoccupied by the strange connections between place and culture: curious about the graves of writers, determined to find the locations of iconic films, intrigued by the landscapes that inspired novels.

Isabelle is alone in Strasbourg. Receiving news of her father's suicide, she misses her flight back to London and a new university job, opting to stay in her partner's empty flat over the winter. 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.