little world

The cover of Little World has a collage of semi realistic drawn images, including a woman's eye, a swooping bird, the running legs of a horse and a plant with green fruit. The title runs down the centre in a black coffin shape and the author's name Josephine Rowe is across the bottom part of the image

Book Review: Little World is an exploration of the life after death of symbols and saints

The ‘little world’ of the title in Josephine Rowe‘s latest novella refers to the sphere of consciousness of an unusual narrator. Arriving in a wooden box in the back of a horse float, she is a nameless girl, perhaps a saint, perhaps a miracle; but, certainly she is the body of a young girl who…

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