My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea Alex Haley bringing with him the hint

bringing with him the hint

When a summer storm isolates the hotel

And maybe once in a career

taste and attitudes over a century of change

and grab his share of the big score

My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea Alex Haley bringing with him the hint'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history. In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties as a mother and wife in London. As Russia invaded Ukraine, she immersed herself in the English