Archetypes: A Reading Guide

Books are full of words that are ingested like medicine. Their benefits, largely intangible, linger long after the book is closed. Books are powerful with the capacity to change lives and alter how we relate to the world. As Mrs Constance Winterson liked to say, ‘The trouble with a book is that you never know what’s in them until it’s too late’.

A book is a presence conjured by a being that speaks to us of other realms. The creator embodies an archetype to shape a work with a life of its own.