SPRINGFIELD ROAD

"When your father is absent you can collect all they have said and all they have told you, you can look at photographs and letters and stir theses ingredients together and bake your own father. It doesn’t matter now if he had faults like the rest of us...the truth is yours and mine to make up. When you have not known your father he can be anyone you like and which version you choose to believe."
Springfield Road is a debut childhood memoir by Salena Godden. She seeks her history in the walls of the neglected old house in Hastings, and she discovers both the present, and the pieces of evidence left behind by her father. Starting in the 1970's this book is both tender and funny, a poetic and universal journey to put to rest old ghosts and find out final truths...