Our Island Stories by Corinne Fowler modern fiction and a romance with a

and a romance with a younger man opens

and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria

she saw that Edward was showing her how to rediscover the joy of life and turn hers around: how even a shared bowl of chowder could transform loneliness and anxiety into friendship

scrupulous and unsparing lucidity

In this short burst of life between the wars

Our Island Stories by Corinne Fowler modern fiction and a romance with aThe countryside is cherished by many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. Where the countryside is celebrated, histories of empire are forgotten. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule