Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's
breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning
with the painful, hidden histories they contain 'Noreen Masud
fathoms the depths of flat landscapes - sharp, subtle and very
moving' Robert Macfarlane 'Haunting and generous, beautifully
written - this book is a gift' Preti Taneja 'A Flat Place reminds
us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures' Sara Ahmed
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. Noreen's British-Pakistani
heritage makes her a partial outsider in these landscapes: both
coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence
lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of
harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her
own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She
pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces
she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate
account of the land beneath her feet.
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