Mary Pomfret offers a Bouquet of vignettes to the reader willing to be led from the surface sweetness of existence to the dark underside of the banal and every day.
Her images trace a seemingly benign trajectory of the familiar and the mundane to a place where human pain leaks out..
The tender illustrations by Julie Andrews are traditional in style but deceptive in intent.
Tread carefully.
Washing the dishes, chopping wood, a walk in the forest are innocent enough activities.
Mary Pomfret offers a Bouquet of vignettes to the reader willing to be led from the surface sweetness of existence to the dark underside of the banal and every day