Letters From Yorkshire - Maura Dooley

• A dislike of urban life, embrace of the natural world.
• A love of the supernatural
  
• Use of ordinary language

Finds imaged for complex feelings. Combines detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty.

Continuing a friendship was harder work, had to send a letter, feeling connected through a spiritual way- like watching the news at the same time. Dooley wrote the story from an office to someone in the countryside.

The relationship is problematic due to the distance between them. Written in tercets…