Land Beneath the Waves : How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging finding new shapes

finding new shapes

In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness

captivating prose

where the sea settles and what can thrive

new spaces and new voices with which to conjure

Land Beneath the Waves : How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging finding new shapesA moving, honest and revealing memoir of living with chronic illness, and an examination of the ways a relationship with the natural world can affect us, from debut author and nature writer Nic Wilson. When Nic Wilson begins researching the history of her local landscape and its wildlife, the last thing she wants to do is consider her own past. But as she unearths tales of giant sequoias, puss moths, nightingales and chalk streams, Nic realises her