‘A city has its own set of notecards, its own memories, and sometimes these too are shuffled carelessly. Those ghosts again, time travel of a sort, that the imbuing of places with meaning can resonate across the centuries and manifest emotional echoes in the future,’

In these two essays, Helena presents astute observations on place and time, from the well-trodden paths of St James Park to the Great Lakes of Canada, in search for our relationship with the places we occupy, their histories, and how we sit with them.