Thin Places (Paperback)

'A remarkable piece of writing. I don't think I've ever read a book as open-hearted as this. It resists easy pieties of nature as a healing force, but nevertheless charts a recovery which could never have been achieved without landscape, wild creatures and "thin places". It is also flocked with luminous details (moths, birds, feathers, skulls, moving water). Kerri's voice is utterly her own, rich and strange. I've folded down the corners of many pages, marking sentences and moments that glitter out at me. Wow' - Robert Macfarlane

'Powerful, unflinching ... Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir ... Vividly descriptive ... Thin Places is at heart a survivor's story located in the real and brutally Darwinian world of lived experience' - The Guardian

'What was Kerri ni Dochartaigh's burden as a child - to exist in "the gaps between" the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland - has become her gift as a writer. She is sensitive to the legacies of loss and trauma and highly attuned to the gifts of the natural world and the possibilities of place. This is a special, beautiful, many-faceted book' - Amy Liptrot

'An eloquent, moving work of politics, geography and the self. Full of wisdom and deeply engaging' - Sinead Gleeson

Ni Dochartaigh's delight in wild things weaves a thread of light through her childhood, adulthood and the book itself ... Acutely personal ... Wonderfully evocative ... This heartfelt memoir, with its message on the saving grace of nature, may speak to an even wider audience than it first imagined' - The Daily Mail