Description:
What belongs in a woman’s trousseau? Something old, something new… a plan of escape? This is a folktale about love, blame, sisters, brothers, rivers and rage; a story woven from court cases, waterways, and the true account of Jane Clouson who lived and died in 1870s Deptford. Once mythologised as victim or seductress, Silt Song reclaims her. Jane is vivid, brilliant, and brimming with intensity, a wanderer desperate to breathe freely. Her testimony written out of history, Jane’s friends swear an oath upon the silt of the Thames – a flood is coming and she won't be forgotten.