Enchantment
Book description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'It will do your soul good to read this.' NIGELLA LAWSON
A balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering.
Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It…
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2 authors picked Enchantment as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book as it follows the author’s quest to reconnect with nature and rediscover a sense of enchantment following the challenges of the COVID lockdowns.
Split into the four elements – earth, air, fire, and water – the author describes her explorations of each element in her life and how if leads her back to herself. I love the book as it enabled me to see nature through the author’s eyes, and with a perspective that is in some ways almost entirely different to my own, and in others, in harmony with my own thoughts and feelings. It…
From Rebecca's list on to reconnect you to nature.
As with May’s first book, Wintering, Enchantment is powerfully resonated.
Poetic language captures the feeling of falling out of wonder with the world—from reading to walks—during the pandemic. May’s quest to rediscover enchantment is both memoir and lesson, both quiet and dazzling, utterly ordinary and exquisite.
To be sat with, mulled over, and returned to, this a book to keep on
your shelf.
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