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Growing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled landscapes, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without obvious parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to combat for him, he made characteristics into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-karts and guns, crossbows and booby traps, ships, bicycles, or scooters. And then, it was rings. From full-out warfare waged against the neighborhood schoolboys to the freedom found in daredevil bicycle antics to the delicacies of dressmaking and the most elaborate designs for rings, Two Turtle Doves traces the romantic journey of how an idea is transformed from a fleeting thought into a perfect design. It is about where we find our imagination, how we remember, and why we make the items we do.
