Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

The Electricity of Every Living Thing is a life-affirming and poignant exploration of nature, and how reconnecting to wild landscapes can create peace in our unquiet minds. It tells the story of Katherine May's year-long journey to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life and to find herself.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 16 May 2019
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

From the bestselling author of Wintering, Katherine May, comes a life-affirming and poignant exploration of nature, and how reconnecting to wild landscapes can create peace in our unquiet minds.

A windswept tale, beautifully told, Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, A manifesto for the value of difficult people. I loved it! Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun.

In August 2015, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating, and why the world felt full of inundation and expectations she couldn't meet. Setting her feet down on the rugged and difficult path by the sea, the answer begins to unfold.

The Electricity of Every Living Thing tells the story of the year in which Katherine comes to terms with a diagnosis that shakes her to her core. It leads to a re-evaluation of her life so far, a kinder one, which finally allows her to be different rather than simply awkward, arrogant, or unfeeling. The physical and psychological journeys become inextricably entwined, and as Katherine finds her way across the untameable coast, she also finds the way to herself.

What readers are saying about The Electricity of Every Living Thing:

Honest and sensitive. The astonishing sensitivity and awareness in her writing, both about the beautiful landscapes and nature around on her walks, and in relation to her family, friends, and self, put paid to many outdated myths about what it is like to be autistic.

Compelling and transformative. I could not put this book down so I stayed in bed and read it in one go.

Katherine has a fantastic way with words, I could read her books for hours.

The Electricity of Every Living Thing is a testament to the power of nature and the importance of reconnecting with it. It is a book that will inspire and uplift, reminding us of the beauty and wonder of the world around us and the potential for peace and healing that can be found in the simplest of things.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781409172512