The last boat: a Shorelines soundscape

By Candida Clark and Sally Heywood

Published: August 11, 2004, 11:08 pm

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Out to sea from Staithes, North Yorkshire

Sally Heywood recorded Bringing the Last Boat Home as part of the BBCs IGNITE programme.

The Mariners Star is a love story and, like all great love stories, a death story... a treat to be lingered over... the writing is so evocative that it feels like being inside a painting... (Geraldine Bedell, The Observer)

Listen to Candida Clark read Chapter 1 of The Mariners Star

North Yorkshire coast

Click here for Chapter 2 of The Mariners StarStaithes, North YorkshireCandida Clark will be reading from her forthcoming novel A House of Light (Headline Press, January 2005) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. For more information, and to book tickets, click here.

Photographs taken by Candida Clark

Candida Clark

Candida Clark is the author of six novels including The Last Look (1998) and The Constant Eye (2000). She has also written film-scripts, short stories, poetry and criticism.

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Sally Heywood

Sally Heywood is a novelist and playwright. She has published over thirty romantic novels, and her work has appeared in theatre, on TV and radio. 'Bringing the Last Boat Home' was part of the BBC's IGNITE programme, to encourage professional writers to think in terms of sound. She lives in Staithes and London.

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