Wintering

Wintering is as beautiful and healing as the season itself. According to Elizabeth Gilbert, this is a truly beautiful book and a peaceful rejection of life on fast forward, as noted by the Observer.

Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life where one feels cut off from the world, rejected, pushed to the margins, blocked from progress, or forced into the role of an outsider. However it comes about, wintering is usually involuntary, lonely, and deeply painful.

In Wintering, Katherine May recounts her own year-long journey through winter, triggered by a sudden illness in her family that plunged her into a time of uncertainty and isolation. When life seemed at its most frozen, she managed to draw strength and inspiration from the incredible wintering experiences of others, as well as from the remarkable transformations that nature undergoes to endure the cold. This beautiful, perspective-shifting memoir teaches us to harness the healing powers of nature and embrace the winters of our own lives.