Tato autorka zkoumá napětí mezi touhou po vzájemném dobru a realitou konkurence a zisku, které formuje náš svět. Prostřednictvím svého díla, které se odklání od tradiční fikce, klade znepokojivé otázky o lidských zlech a jejich dopadu na naši planetu, a zároveň nabízí možné cesty k nápravě. Se svou vášní pro komunitní aktivismus a psaní se autorka zaměřuje na ekologickou fikci, jejíž kořeny tkví v historických konfliktech mezi těmi, kdo hledají zisk, a těmi, kdo usilují o harmonii s přírodou. Tato literární tvorba, která se odehrává ve světě s nádechem reality, odhaluje dlouhodobé boje o zachování životního prostředí a nabízí poutavé čtení pro široké publikum.
The narrative explores the struggle of self-sustaining communities against adversaries intent on exploiting their wetlands for agriculture. After a tragic loss, Clare and William find refuge among marsh dwellers and coastal farmers, forging new identities amidst the conflict. Their journey highlights themes of resilience, survival, and the clash between ecological preservation and development, as they navigate the challenges posed by both their pasts and the external threats to their new home.
Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.