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Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed Paperback – May 14, 2020
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The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.
'Incredibly moving. To find peace and a sense of home after a life so profoundly affected by the housing crisis, is truly inspirational' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a child. Working several jobs and never knowing if she could make the rent, she felt like she was breaking apart.
Homesick for the landscape of her childhood, in the far west of Cornwall, Catrina decides to give up the box-room and face her demons. As a child, she saw her family and their security torn apart; now, she resolves to make a tiny, dilapidated shed a home of her own.
With the freedom to write, surf and make music, Catrina rebuilds the shed and, piece by piece, her own sense of self. On the border of civilisation and wilderness, between the woods and the sea, she discovers the true value of home, while trying to find her place in a fragile natural world.
This is the story of a personal housing crisis and a country-wide one, grappling with class, economics, mental health and nature. It shows how housing can trap us or set us free, and what it means to feel at home.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publisherriverrun
- Publication dateMay 14, 2020
- Dimensions5.04 x 1.1 x 7.72 inches
- ISBN-101787478661
- ISBN-13978-1787478664
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- Publisher : riverrun (May 14, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1787478661
- ISBN-13 : 978-1787478664
- Item Weight : 9.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.04 x 1.1 x 7.72 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,422,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Catrina Davies was born in Snowdonia and grew up around Land's End, in Cornwall. She is the author of Fearless, an account of busking from Norway to Portugal, and Homesick, an acclaimed personal account of the UK housing crisis, grappling with class, economics, mental health and nature.
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