Imprint: Rider
Published: 06/02/2020
ISBN: 9781846045981
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 28mm x 144mm
Weight: 428g
RRP: £15.99
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
Published: 06/02/2020
ISBN: 9781846045981
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 28mm x 144mm
Weight: 428g
RRP: £15.99
A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows
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.
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.
An elegant investigation into the consolations of nature and how it can be wonderfully restorative even on the bleakest of days
[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