Cacophony of Bone
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Kerri ni Dochartaigh
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Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes. The pandemic arrived and their isolated home became a place of enforced isolation. It was to be a year unlike any we had seen before. But the seasons still turned, the swallows came at their allotted time, the rhythms of the natural world went on unchecked. For Kerri there was to be one more change, a longed-for but unhoped for change. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of a year – a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life – from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world – and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on – living and breathing, nesting and dying – in spite of it all. When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean. Fragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.
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- 14-05-23
Wonderful
In recent times there have been some great books, this one is one of the best.
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- J. C
- 01-06-23
I’m so glad I went to the audiobook first
This memoir totally absorbing. Hearing the words read by the author made the exquisite language even more impactful. Language really doesn’t do enough to describe the depth of this memoir. I felt every word, and this feeling will linger and live within me. My life feels enriched having read this and I can’t wait to follow Kerri’s career. If you enjoy absorbing, poetic, and embodied writing please read this!!
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- veyza
- 08-10-23
Dreamy and poetic
A dreamy and poetic meditation on home, love, time, motherhood, personal resilience set against the backdrop of the pandemic in rural Ireland. Beautifully read.
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- tamara
- 27-06-23
Reflective prose that digests a year
In every exhale, there lives a 1000 memories. The substance that takes up space there is guided by grief, longing, loss, pleasure, wisdom, meaning, connection and loneliness. This writer asks us to come into her living memories over a 12 month navigation of the year the world changed and how it transformed her. I held every thought and sentence dearly. It brought colour back into a time where everything felt thick and grey.
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- Zephora
- 27-01-24
A wondrous experience
A book unlike any other I have read. A flowing blend of memoir and nature writing that, at times left me breathless.
The author herself narrated it which was another layer of meaning in itself. The distinctive vowel sounds of her Derry accent was a constant reminder of what she had lived through, but the sounds themselves were rare and beautiful.
Just wondrous.
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