My Battle of HastingsThe new memoir in a triptych from prize winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in local history. 'This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing' Lauren Elkin In the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafronta room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London. She