Snowlines is a collection based on Rebecca’s experience of finding her family’s roots in the Ligurian Alps and where her father was a partisan in WW2.

The poems come from reflections while exploring the valley and beyond.

Rebecca found the village where her Italian family had come from by chance (after research had failed) and subsequently learned much about the history of the area and its wildlife. However, the more she learned the more she realised that history is unknowable and depends on interpretation and point of view.

In our shifting climate, Snowlines also documents the land and its creatures, weaving these strands to show the vulnerability of the Maritime Alps.