savourites #45: kerri ní dochartaigh takeover
This is savourites, my Friday dispatch of notes from the week, along with recommendations of things to read, eat and generally indulge in. Subscribe to read the rest. There are some books so potent that you have a photographic memory of where you read them. Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places is among those: I can’t think of it without thinking of a hazy September week in Southwold, where we ended up sleeping in a house that had previously belonged to P.D. James. The whole place was Elizabethan and beamy - the kind of houses that make me feel at home, because they remind me of the one I grew up in - and the bathroom was covered in wallpapered blue swans. In its large, gurgling bath I sat, salt-slick from the sea, and warmed up with Thin Places, an aching memoir of place and displacement. Kerri and I are publishing sisters of sorts: we’ve entrusted our words to Canongate, the same artist painted the covers of Cacophony of Bone, Kerri’s forthcoming book about time, lockdown and listlessness, and Why Women Grow. We are bound in this way but also many more: she has always been very generous towards my work and, in recent months, sent me long and heart-soaring messages about motherhood and writing. They have been a bolster. I’m so pleased she was up for taking over this week’s savourites. I’m Kerri ní Dochartaigh, a mother and writer from the North-West of Ireland, now living in Clare with my family. As well as these, I make and mend; sow and grow; swim and walk. My first book, Thin Places, was published by in Spring 20201. Cacophony Of Bone is out in less than a fortnight. I wrote Cacophony Of Bone the winter and spring before last, living in a barn on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, so for this week’s savourites I’d like to shine a light on that beautiful, creative, magical part of these islands …Oh Kernow, how we love you!... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to savour to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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Resting like a writer
Thursday, April 20, 2023
savour cross-posted a post from Katherine May's Stray Attention Alice VincentApr 20 · savour I had bold intentions to write and send the usual weekly Wednesday letter yesterday, but I spent hours
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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savourites #44: maya thomas takeover
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
spring awakening | embracing weeds | herb fangirling
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Friday, April 7, 2023
quilts | books | eccentric aunt energy
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
on the small hours
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