The Cure for Sleep (W&N Essentials) - Hardcover

Shadrick, Tanya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474618073 ISBN 13: 9781474618076

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning.

On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams.

Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers.

As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes - and costs - to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue.

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Tanya Shadrick is a British writer and former hospice life-story scribe who explores the tension between restraint and risk: how we negotiate duty and desire. Her work includes the durational performance piece The Wild Patience Scrolls: a mile of writing composed pen on paper beside England's oldest outdoor pool which led to residencies at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland and Virginia Woolf's Monk's House. The Cure for Sleep is her debut book, a memoir that explores the limits of personal freedom within small-town life: what it takes and costs to expand the possible. It was a Waterstones and Evening Standard non-fiction book of the year.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474618073
• ISBN 13: 9781474618076
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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