When Mathilde Walter Clark’s stepfather dies in Denmark, she is plagued by worries about the death of her American father on the other side of the Atlantic. Lone Star is the result of her desire to catalogue her love and memories of him, and of navigating distances between the Danish and American strands of her life.

In Peter Godwin’s Exit Wounds, his UK-born mother who became a renowned doctor in Zimbabwe lies dying in his sister’s London home. Her final days prompt Godwin’s reflections of his own culture-crossing life: a Zimbabwean childhood, a global war reportage career, and an American life with transatlantic children.

With Georgina Godwin they discuss the difficulties of finding a sense of home in adulthood when ‘home’ is a disparate place, and how losing a parent brings this into even sharper focus.

Supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.