{"title":"Kerri ni Dochartaigh Collection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKerri ní Dochartaigh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThin Places\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe lives in the west of Ireland with her family. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCacophony of Bone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis her second book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AWATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCacophony of Bone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emaps the circle of that year – a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life – from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world – and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on – living and breathing, nesting and dying – in spite of it all. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for fans of Amy Liptrot, Sinéad Gleeson, Doireann Ní Ghríofa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cacophony-of-bone-1","title":"Kerri ni Dochartaigh: Cacophony of Bone [2023] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes. The pandemic arrived and their isolated home became a place of enforced isolation. It was to be a year unlike any we had seen before. But the seasons still turned, the swallows came at their allotted time, the rhythms of the natural world went on unchecked. For Kerri there was to be one more change, a longed-for but unhoped for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCacophony of Bone\u003c\/i\u003e maps the circle of a year - a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life - from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world - and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on - living and breathing, nesting and dying - in spite of it all.  When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean. Fragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ni Dochartaigh, Kerri","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47142314148179,"sku":"XV81838856281","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":50934523625811,"sku":"9781838856281","price":24.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ni-dochartaigh-kerri-kerri-ni-dochartaigh-cacophony-of-bone-2023-hardback-1161111599.jpg?v=1746561332"},{"product_id":"thin-places-1","title":"Kerri ni Dochartaigh: Thin Places [2021] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A special, beautiful, many-faceted book' Amy Liptrot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Eloquent . . . Moving' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSinead G\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eleeson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThin Places,\u003c\/i\u003e a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. 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