The new dress

Waking, I cry Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beautiful, strange and pioneering, each piece is a small precious stone to be held to the light and savoured.