Stone Will Answer

A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft, by young stone mason Beatrice Searle.

Stone Will Answer is a beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.

'Extraordinary' – Guardian
'A magnificent book' – Alex Woodcock
'Exceptional' – Kerri Andrews
'Luminous' – Spectator

At the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral stonemason Beatrice Searle crossed the North Sea and walked 500 miles along a medieval pilgrim path through Southern Norway, taking with her a 40-kilogram Orcadian stone.

Fascinated with the mysterious footprint stones of Northern Europe and the ancient Greco-Roman world, stones closely associated with travellers, saints, and the inauguration of Kings, she follows in their footsteps as her stone becomes a talisman, a bedrock, and an offering to those she meets along the way.

Stone Will Answer is an unusual adventure story of journeys practical, spiritual, and geological, of weight and motion, and an insight into a beguiling craft.