Valley of the Kings is both excavation of family history and an incantation of voices telling contemporary stories that startle. The grieving son and the street angel; the coke addict meeting Piers Plowman in the service-station; the singing nightingale on Universal Credit; the homeless person in Ancient Egypt; the young lovers in their mythic hotel: all united in 'the exquisite pain of the human day'.
Let 'the weight of the wind...
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