Lucy Vickery

Hole hearted

In Competition No. 2506 you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘A Life With a Hole In It’.

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In Competition No. 2506 you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘A Life With a Hole In It’.

In Competition No. 2506 you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘A Life With a Hole In It’.
This is the title of a poem written by Philip Larkin in 1974, shortly after a move that plunged him into a black depression.

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