Thin Places

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

About the author

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

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

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Summary

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

Foreword

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

Additional text

A powerful, bracing memoir that asks what happens when a child grows up in a city that isn't safe . . . This is a book that will make you see the world differently

Product details

• Authors: Kerri ni Dochartaigh
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781838854515
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-451-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 214 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; NATURE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, natural history, Northern Ireland, Social and cultural history, Nature and the natural world: general interest