Thin Places A Natural History Of Healing And Home Kerri N Dochartaigh by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh 9781571317698, 9782021030631, 2021030636, 1571317694, 2021030637 instant download after payment.

‘Beautiful’ — Amy Liptrot

‘Powerful, unflinching … Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir’ — Guardian

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing & history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict & the healing power of the natural world

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING – HIGHLY COMMENDED

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Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North & South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri’s family were forced out of two homes & when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. For families like hers, terror was in the very fabric of the city.

In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, & nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane & helped her heal, how violence & poverty are never more than a stone’s throw from beauty & hope, & how we are again allowing our borders to become hard & terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim & rejoice in our landscape through language & study, & remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours, but—at the same time—it never really was. 

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Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s 1st book, Thin Places, was published in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, & highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021.

Cacophony of Bone is her 2nd book. She lives in the west of Ireland with her family.

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