The Wild Track

Adopting, Mothering, Belonging

The Wild Track
Margaret Reynolds
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Paperback
h198 x 127mm - 320pg
24 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529176612
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How to find an outlet for a love that demands expression? Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, the realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly; she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny is intense. There are questions about past lives, about her own childhood, heritage, capabilities, expectations and identity. This is a book about what makes a mother, and a home; how the legacies of childhood may impact on the experience of parenting; and how the pervasive nature of childhood trauma might be faced by a mother' s determination to love.
Exquisite. Beautifully written, The Wild Track is a deeply insightful memoir which charts displacement and our fundamental longings for place and identity and ultimately our yearnings for love. -- Helena Kennedy This memoir is a triumph; an extraordinarily wise and rich analysis of what it means to belong, to a place and to beloved others. Deeply moving, richly allusive, surprising and thought-provoking, The Wild Track deserves to be one of the great successes of 2021. -- Bel Mooney A remarkable book. Wise and arresting in its candour. -- Sarah Winman Enlightening. . . The Wild Track is a passionate, heartfelt exploration of a woman who wants to be a mother. I found it utterly compelling. -- Alex Wheatle
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning' s Aurora Leigh won the British Academy' s Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets- An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4' s long running ' Adventures in Poetry' .
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529176612
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 320

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