Kerri ni Dochartaigh

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED 'Remarkable' - Robert Macfarlane 'Beautiful' - Amy Liptrot 'Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir' - Guardian Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year,...