Hastings and Haestingas

Xiaolu Guo’s memoir, My Battle of Hastings, was recently reviewed by Oonagh Devitt Tremblay for the Times Literary Supplement.

“The third and final installment in the author’s triptych of memoirs charts a year in the author’s life. After the death of her parents, Guo receives an inheritance and sets out in search of a place that she can afford, and where she can ‘find a room just to write and think by myself’ – away from London, where she has been living with her partner and daughter. Her account becomes a meditation not only on how history has shaped Hastings, but also on what it means to locate oneself within history.” 

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