It is a challenge to think differently about what it means to be 'from' somewhere, and how the political urgency of early twenty-first century living needs us to be more critical of our stories, reclaiming what is valuable to us from the grip of those who would take our histories and use them for division and exploitation. Where? is more than a graphic novel, it is a treatise on grief, on childhood, nature, and belonging. In a memoir that that combines prose, illustration, photos, archival texts, and more, Where? weaves a gentle story that slips and slides in time and geography, creating connections across geographies, histories, families, times, and circumstance all to answer the question - 'where are you from?' They very kindly contacted us in advance to warn us of a wedding taking place on one of the days we were staying. There are tales of empty mansions, of being bullied cooking with his Dad, messing around with his brother, exploring forests being an adult faced with an ill father history and folklore of the Clee Hills of high-society scandals, prejudice and fear industrial decline and automation haunted cliff faces working on a radar station of being a kid, of hospitals, of growing old, of the seasons passing, of his family, of his father and his kindnesses of how he became whatever it is he was, and how this big hill was a backdrop to so much of it. Their 8 course gourmet tasting menu is perfect. The story centres around Titterstone Clee Hill, and Caynham, the nearby village in which the author lived as a child. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time as transplants to the countryside. In 2017, Simon Moreton's father fell suddenly ill and died.

This innovative graphic novel weaves memory, photographs and illustration to create a powerful memoir. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time there.

Days by Simon Moreton