Deze auteur verkent de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen de mensheid en de natuurlijke wereld, waarbij ze zich vaak verdiept in het innerlijke leven van haar personages. Haar stijl is lyrisch en introspectief, met een scherp oog voor gedetailleerde observatie en subtiele emotionele nuances. Door haar schrijven probeert ze de vluchtige aard van momenten en de schoonheid in het alledaagse leven vast te leggen. Haar werken resoneren bij lezers die diepgang en poëtische taal waarderen.
As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents of life, recorded here in delightful prose and beautiful illustrations, reveal an artist's careful eye.
'A drawing of the world when I was young.' So Gwen Raverat, the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, which since its initial publication in 1952 has never been out of print. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge society in a time when it was restricted enough to be treated as an extension of the family. As a child she thought it impossible that she would ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded here both in word and drawing, reveal an artist's careful eye.