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Words to Live By: A Daily Journal

Write Your Way to Clarity and Calm
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'I love her poetry, I love her ethos ... I think she's amazing' - DAVINA MCCALL A daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragement from the UK's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope, beautifully designed in four-colour throughout. The perfect way to start... Read More
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A beautiful daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragement, from the UK's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope.

A beautiful daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragement, from the UK's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope.

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'I love her poetry, I love her ethos ... I think she's amazing' - DAVINA MCCALL

A daily journal of inspiration, comfort and encouragement from the UK's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wild Hope, beautifully designed in four-colour throughout. The perfect way to start afresh, or a gift for someone special.

Start every day with Donna Ashworth by your side in this beautiful, interactive daily journal. With uplifting poems, guiding words, wise insights, perspective shifts and understanding on every page, Donna will accompany you throughout the year to help you embrace life in all its messy wondrousness.

Donna also encourages you to explore your own words and writing to help you ride each wave this life sends your way, helping you find beauty and wonder on days the world scares you, comfort and patience when sadness is visiting, and courage and hope when you can't see the light. She also gently steers you back to love yourself, as you are, and to see that, no matter what you experience in this world, you are never alone.

Every day is a journey and it starts with you.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781785307157

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 November 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Black and White Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 1072g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Donna Ashworth is a Sunday Times bestselling author and the UK's no.1 bestselling poet. She lives in the hills of Scotland with her husband, two sons, Brian and Dave (the dogs) and Sheldon (the cat). Donna started her social media accounts in 2018 in a bid to create a 'safe' social space for women to come together and connect, but her love of all things wordy quickly became the focus, and a past love for poetry was reignited. Seven books and nearly 1.8 million followers later, Donna is delighted daily with her mission to shower the world with words and bring poetry back into focus.

'I believe wholeheartedly in the power of opening a daily poetry page to better everyone's mental health and clear space within our minds. Poetry is permission to feel everything we as humans are absolutely supposed to, knowing we are not alone, never alone. Poetry is not folly for the fancy; it is using words to shift perspectives, heal wounds and let in light again. And it is something we can pass to one another when times become turbulent, as they so often will.

Donna's bestselling books include Wild Hope, I Wish I Knew, Love, Loss, Life and To the Women.

Facebook @DonnaAshworth / Instagram @DonnaAshworthWords
TikTok @DonnaAshworthWordy / Twitter/X @donna_ashworth

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