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Bloomsbury presents Look We Have Come Through by Lara Feigel read by Emily PennantRea

Her intensity and intimacy are engaging Blake Morrison Guardian
A lovely urgent serious book Tessa Hadley
Refreshing and unexpected Daisy Hay Financial Times

Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism biography and memoir Look We Have Come Through is a captivating exhumation of an author and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views

Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window their circling strident calls and thinks of D H Lawrence It is the spring of 2020 and as the pandemic takes hold she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner her two children and that most explosive of writers

Proceeding month by month through the year she sets out to start again with Lawrence to find vital literary companionship to use him as a guide to rural living and even unexpectedly to childrearing to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world she feels he helped bring into being Tracing the arc of Lawrences life and delving deep into his writings she confronts his anger his passion his tumultuous vitality In the process she faces some of todays most urgent dilemmas from secular religion to the climate crisis from sex and sexuality to feminisms ideas about motherhood And as she watches the seasons change alongside Lawrence Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life shifting in unexpected ways