The Cure for Sleep

The Cure for Sleep
Tanya Shadrick
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Hardback
h218 x 140mm - 336pg
20 Jan 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781474618076
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Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams. Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers. As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes - and costs - to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue.
Such a bold, brave, and beautiful story about birth, death, rebirth and building a larger life * Charlie Gilmour, author of Featherhood * I love this book. Tanya' s story is moving and inspiring. Her thoughts and writing are well considered, courageous & true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure * Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun * This is a book of women and words; homes and honesty; light and longing. A life laid bare, and given to us as reminder of what it means to choose to live. Shadrick weaves the raw beauty of the day to day with the magic of myth and fairy tale to offer us a way through the darkest woods * Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places * I finished this wonderful book with tears in my eyes. A book about daring to be, daring to head out, to encounter truths and to understand what place desire must have and must not have in a life. It is beautifully written, both careful and passionate, both slight and strong in its gestures like the best of art, and astonishingly, heartrendingly open. Intensity, beauty, subtlety, pain and courage - all are here. * Adam Nicolson, author of Sea Room and The Mighty Dead * In beautiful prose, Tanya Shadrick writes her own fairy tale of becoming. She is fearless in her depiction of female desire - I think many women will find themselves in these pages. * Katherine May, author of Wintering * A daring and enchantingly written blend of memoir and self-help, which urges us to consider, at any age, breaking the spell of our inherited longings for love, approval, safety and rescue, and doing what we are actually called to do with our one wild and precious life. -- Caroline Sanderson * THE BOOKSELLER, Editor' s Choice * Such lovely observations on familial love and motherhood - and being alive * Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon * A compelling personal memoir that I gulped down greedily. It' s a story about struggle, class, opportunity (taken and wasted), art, sex and desire. About how to live, once you' ve faced down death, and how to love. The writing is direct and meaningful, open and heart-felt; Tanya is fearless in her integrity and honesty. In laying out her life, Tanya has created a book with the capacity to change yours * Jenny Landreth, author of SWELL * This book is absolutely magnificent, heartfelt, beautiful. I read it compulsively * Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat * The Cure for Sleep is an extraordinary book, an artistic triumph in its attention to language and rhythm, but also its truth and honesty. It is full of integrity in its exploration of what it is to be a woman, a wife, a mother, but also an artist; and doesn' t shy away from those difficult questions of sacrifice, so challenging for the working and desiring woman. But it is also a story of endurance, that with patience, bravery and wisdom, we can all reach new heights in our relationship with ourselves and those we love. * Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father *
Tanya Shadrick is a former hospice scribe and writer who works in public spaces to encourage others to share stories and take creative risks. She has been a visiting writer in many extraordinary places, including England' s oldest outdoor pool, Virginia Woolf' s garden at Monk' s House and the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature in Switzerland. She is editor and publisher of the Wainwright Prize longlisted Wild Woman Swimming (The Selkie Press) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. This is her first book.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781474618076
Published: 20 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 218mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 440g
Pages: 336

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