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&#8220Ittakes both daring and humility to write a book as
unique aseven Steeples. In unfailingly precise and lyrical
prose, and with a religious attention to even the humblest
things of this world, Sara Baume pays homage to nature, to
hearth and home, and to the miracle of a love engendered by
the union of two solitaries.&#8221&#8212igid Nunez, author of
the National Book Award WinnerThe FriendA stunning,
powerful new novel about a couple that pushes against
traditional expectations, moving with their dogs to the Irish
countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make
attempts to disappear from society. It is the winter following the
summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote
house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with
misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives
stretched out before them to build another&#8212on
embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from
whom they&#8217vedrifted. They arrive at their new home on
a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A
mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the
Atlantic, &#8220asif it had accumulated stature over centuries.
As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself
upwards.&#8221They make a promise to climb the mountain,
but&#8212ovr the course of the next seven
years&#8212itremains unclimbed. We move through the
seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more
about the small world around them, and as their interest in the
wider world recedes.Seven Steeplesis a beautiful and
profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of