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The Ghost Lake - Wendy Pratt

The Ghost Lake

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2024
The Borough Press (Verlag)
978-0-00-863737-8 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
'Remarkable'OBSERVER


'Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES


‘Astounding’ ADAM FARRER


‘Brave and luminous’ SARAH LANGFORD


‘Mesmerising’ POLLY ATKIN


‘Beautifully written’ YORKSHIRE POST


‘Steadfastly honest’ GEOGRAPHICAL



A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire.



I am setting out on a pilgrimage through an ancient landscape.






I will begin at my daughter’s grave.




Paleolake Flixton is an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. Human occupation of the site dates back thousands of years to prehistoric times. Over the millennia, the vast lake disappeared, turning to wetland and peaty fields. Today all that is left of it is a watermark.


Wendy Pratt brings the reader on a pilgrimage around the ghost lake, to locations that have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she reflects on the process of finding belonging in nature as a woman who exists in a series of liminal spaces – as a working-class writer, an infertile woman in a fertile world and a bereaved mother in a society focused on children.


An early draft of The Ghost Lake was longlisted for the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize.


‘In this lyric memoir, award-winning poet Pratt explores the land­scape of the Yorkshire Moors, and the ancient lost lake of Flixton, weaving together nature writing with an exploration of grief, belonging and the lives of rural working-class people. THE BOOKSELLER


‘There are some autobiographical writers who speak of utilising nature’s healing properties to overcome life challenges without fully acknowledging the role of luck in their trajectories. Not infrequently these writers become cultural spokespeople for or representatives of a demographic that they are actually no longer a part of, leaving those who are still grappling with their plights feeling as though it’s a personal failing that they can’t make their way out the same mires. This is a very different sort of book, a steadfastly honest one that views nature as a refuge rather than a cure. Many should find solace here. And others will simply gain pleasure from the descriptions of the archaeological finds unearthed from Yorkshire’s rich black peaty soils’GEOGRAPHICAL

Wendy Pratt is a poet, author, editor and workshop facilitator living and working on the North Yorkshire coast, where she grew up. She is the author of five collections of poetry. Her collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet award in 2021. She is founder and editor in chief of Spelt Magazine and facilitates online and in person writing courses and workshops.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 141 x 222 mm
Gewicht 760 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
ISBN-10 0-00-863737-7 / 0008637377
ISBN-13 978-0-00-863737-8 / 9780008637378
Zustand Neuware
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