Review by Bernie Bell.

I’ve started reading ‘The North Road’ by Rob Cowen.  I’m always delighted to find a good new writer – whether new in time, or new to me.  Rob Cowen is both and what he writes about is very much of these times, but interwoven with past times and people and also what the future might hold.

The first chapter…’Surfacing’ is what prompted me to write this – how he describes his first experience of an archaeologist un-earthing a skeleton.

He catches that strange feeling of the connection between and combination of today’s world and the worlds of the past – both right there,  in his present.   

You really do need to read it for yourself.

I was reminded of when a school-friend of mine  was working on a dig in York in the summer between school and university.  Me and another friend went to visit her and on the dig they’d just discovered the bones of a teenage boy.

This disturbed Anny – she felt too close to that person, as a person.   In fact, she changed her Degree from Archaeology to Geography – much more clear-cut. 

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/439516/the-north-road-by-cowen-rob/9781529152432