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Wintering

  • Imprint: Rider

  • ISBN: 9781846045981

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 28mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 428g

  • RRP: £15.99

Wintering

  • How I learned to flourish when life became frozen

Longlisted for The Wainwright Prize 2020

'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path

'Wintering is every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself ... this is truly a beautiful book' Elizabeth Gilbert

In Wintering, Katherine May recounts her own year-long journey through winter, sparked by a sudden illness in her family that plunged her into a time of uncertainty and seclusion. When life felt at is most frozen, she managed to find strength and inspiration from the incredible wintering experiences of others as well as from the remarkable transformations that nature makes to survive the cold.

This beautiful, perspective-shifting memoir teaches us to draw from the healing powers of the natural world and to embrace the winters of our own lives.

'A peaceful rebuff to life in fast-forward' Observer

  • Imprint: Rider

  • ISBN: 9781846045981

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 28mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 428g

  • RRP: £15.99

Reviews

  • A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows

    Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path

  • Katherine May thoughtfully examines the emotional, spiritual, and geographical reality of the cold times, the dark days, and those periods of our lives when things are neither soft nor easy. In so doing, she offers a great and humane service to her readers: she shows us that wintering cannot be avoided, but need not be feared.

    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Wise, radical and comforting. It's a refreshing, original way of looking at winter, both the season and the winterings that happen in all of our lives. A thought-provoking joy to read.

    Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

  • An elegant investigation into the consolations of nature and how it can be wonderfully restorative even on the bleakest of days

    Sunday Express

  • [A] sympathetic memoir ... May recounts how she attempted to embrace rather than resist the gloom and chill of winter ... she radiates sincerity and quiet self-knowledge

    TLS

About the Author

Katherine May

Katherine May is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent works include The Electricity of Every Living Thing and The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club. She lives by the sea in Whitstable and enjoys sea swimming and long walks. She lives and breathes everything the natural world has to offer and is compelled by how the wild and extreme landscapes can benefit our mental and emotional wellbeing.

Katherine May

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Features

How Wintering captured the strange beauty of 2020

Katherine May’s book about retreating from everyday life was released a month before lockdown, yet has become an emblem of it for readers around the world. Here Alice Vincent explores how Wintering gave us all something to cling onto.

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