Böcker av Elizabeth Barrett

Lia was constructed for a single purpose: to assist and serve their creator, Jacinta. But when a sudden tragedy leaves them alone for good, everything changes. They cannot function without a purpose. Lia's best hope for a new direction lies in a place far away, a great city by the sea. But the road there is long and difficult, and the desert is a terrifying place to travel. Will Lia be able to brave the journey?This short novella explores what it means to be a purposeful creature without any purpose. Exciting, funny, and heartwarming, Lia, Obsolete is an adventure that all humans can enjoy.

This is highly-charged poetry - intelligent, honest, unsentimental, exciting - full of surprises and with an unflagging pace and energy from the start. In four sections, the book contains sequences on the death of the poet's mother and the quarrying of Portland stone, as well poems exploring old and new relationships, dying and developing love.