Ann Lingard: 3 books

  When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history . . . Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; and malacologist...

People, flowers, memories: how do we preserve the past? Set in the Lake District, the shifting mosaic of the narrative explores life, love and prejudice through three very different women: Ruth, a taxidermist; Madeleine, a widowed sheep-farmer; and Lisa, a mathematician.  As Lisa is drawn...

In June 1932 and June 1947, nearly all 11-year-olds who were attending school in Scotland sat a test of verbal reasoning. In the past decade, more than 1,500 of those people – now in older age – were recruited to the Lothian Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936. The rich scientific data from those...