Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds both written and painted by

both written and painted by Lana McDonagh

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Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds both written and painted byThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the