What the Wind Saw: Short Stories from the Heart of Hertfordshire (Paperback)

"Zoe Jasko creates a wonderfully evocative atmosphere through these stories inspired by the history, folklore and landscape of the remarkable county of Hertfordshire. Turning points are explored through the personal, everyday lives of its residents past, present and future that we can all relate to." Emma Harper Curator, Welwyn -Hatfield Museum Service; "Beautifully written and very lyrical like the musician that you are. The writing made me feel safe and warm". Lucy Gravatt, Journalist and Communications Director; "These stories are extraordinary, each one a mini masterpiece, each competing to be a personal favourite. Each is somehow spiritual in its own way. The reader enters a field, turns a corner and watches a mini play, with different sets and from different periods. Beware the casual reader; the stories are deceptively simple. It is easy to access the stories at different levels and each is fulfilling. What I am trying to say at midnight is that I have never read a book quite like this one. The small area of England comes to life, is populated by those in the stories and no one can visit, seek out, those spots and not think of these stories and wonder if perhaps they were all true at some moment in time, two thousand years ago, 50 years ago, or at a moment which corresponds with no time as we measure it in conventional terms." Peter Waine, Author and former national chairman of CPRE