"In this engaging book of poems, James Scruton presents a stunningly simple and elegant collection of memories, a virtual photo album of images clipped from childhood and re-evaluated through the eyes of an adult self.

James Scruton likes to stand on an observable fact and then reach for something beyond; a bit of science is often all he needs to launch these poems into their appealing orbits. --Billy Collins.

Throughout the collection, memory meets imagination in such figures as The Diviner and The Apple Sellers, and past experience opens possibilities for renewal.