Thunderstone
A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another
$45.40
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2022
Summary
‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors… But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.’
In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again.
As summer begins, Nancy embraces the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783966578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783966572 |
| Author: | Nancy Campbell |
| Publisher: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Imprint: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
‘A memoir of great honesty and clarity, intimacy and subtlety … It asks profound questions about how to live through the storms of life with authenticity.’ Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being
‘A courageous, compassionate, uncanny chronicle of life and loss on the fringes. Striking in its candour, brilliant in its breadth, often very funny.’ Dan Richards, author of Outpost
‘Here is a writer who knows better than most of us how to live.’ Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
‘The most thoughtful and soothing book I’ve read this year.’ Daily Mail
‘A beautiful and often very funny account of hope and healing in the face of illness and uncertainty.’ TLS‘
‘How to find beauty and wonder even in the most trying of circumstances’ The Scotsman
‘An uplifting, heart-filled read full of hope and love.’ Lulah Ellender, author of Grounding
Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award in 2020 for a decade-long creative response to the polar environment, which began during a winter as Artist in Residence at the most northern museum in the world on Upernavik in Greenland.
Her books include:
- Fifty Words for Snow (a Waterstones Book of the Month)
- The Library of Ice: Readings in a Cold Climate
- Disko Bay (poetry collection)
She was appointed Canal Laureate in 2018, writing poems for installation across the UK waterways from London Docklands to the River Severn. Her memoir Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm describes making a home in an old Buccaneer caravan between the River Thames and the Oxford Canal, where she still lives.
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