Mari Strachan

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Mari Strachan


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Harlech, Wales, The United Kingdom
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Mari Strachan was born into a Welsh family in Harlech, on the north-west coast of Wales, and was brought up there with Welsh as her first language.

After graduating from Cardiff University she qualified as a chartered librarian, and worked in a variety of libraries, from academic through public and prison to school libraries, with occasional forays into other occupations.

In 2007 she acquired an MA (with distinction) in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.

As well as writing and reading, Mari’s interests include the past and its people, and the future, in the form of sustainable living.

She and her husband now live on a tiny smallholding in Ceredigion.

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The Earth Hums in B Flat

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“Up here, far away from everybody, the night is peaceful: there's no sound except the hum of the Earth. At school, when I sang the note to Mr Hughes Music he said it was B flat but he laughed when I said it was the note the Earth hummed. He said: You'll be hearing the music of the spheres next, Gwenni. But he doesn't know how the Earth's deep, never-ending note clothes me in rainbow colors, fills my head with all the books ever written, and feeds me with the smell of Mrs. Sergeant Jones's famous vanilla biscuits and the strawberry taste of Instant Whip and the cool slipperiness of glowing red jelly. I could stay up here for ever without the need for anything else in the whole world.”
Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat
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“When people are mad, do they become different people, or are they versions of themselves with all the horrible things about them magnified?”
Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat

“Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me. I never fly far beyond the shore. If my town were a map the bay would have Here Be Monsters written on it in golden ink.”
Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat



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