📱 eBook en inglés CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN

Justin has always been conflicted over the exalted claims made about The Wicker Man, his fathers magnum opus: for him, the film destroyed his family. He has no photographs of Robin Hardy in his house. His brother Dominic, whom Robin abandoned as a baby, has been more distanced. Their fathers film is a set of fragmented stories: benighted production, brutal editing, critical reception, financial failure, and later revival.

Then, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Justin receives a letter from a woman hes never met. She has found a cache of Robins personal papers that have been sitting untouched in the attic of Justins childhood home since the 1970s. Would he like them?

Using these newly uncovered sources, along with the Hardy familys own letters and photographs, Children of The Wicker Man investigates what Robin Hardys creative contribution to The Wicker Man was, and considers who was truly sacrificed. In the process, the brothers discover an unlikely heroine: Justins mother Caroline, who bankrupted herself paying loans to her husband and the film, only for him to leave when it flopped. For all women behind artist husbands, this book reveals a series of heroines: the mothers of the children of The Wicker Man.