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CATHY MOORE , DI RECTOR OF CAMBRIDGE L I TERARY FEST IVAL , ON THE L IGHT IN THE DARK THE LIGHT IN THE DARK: A WINTER JOURNAL The month’s choice is both a hymn to the winter season we find ourselves in and an acknowledgement of how many of us struggle with lower moods throughout the dark winter months. The Light in the Dark is written by nature writer Horatio Clare and is a moving winter diary which, as the title suggests, encourages us to look outwards and embrace winter with all of its shadows and lights. Clare suffers from depression and this beautifully written book is all the more powerful and moving because of that.
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WABI SABI BY BETH KEMPTON The perfect book for a brand new year: Wabi Sabi is Beth Kempton’s exploration of an elusive Japanese concept that, once grasped, promises contentment and joy despite our “perfectly imperfect” lives.
THE LOST WORDS BY ROBERT MACFARLANE & JACKIE MORRIS
Another meditation on the beauty of the natural world by Cambridge resident Robert MacFarlane: this stunning, enormous book uses acrostics to celebrate wild words in danger of vanishing frommodern lexicons, and is beautifully illustrated with drawings of nature by Jackie Morris.
UP NEXT MONTH A PERFECT MOTHER BY KATR I SKAL A
Next month’s book is A Perfect Mother , the first novel from writer Katri Skala. During a trip to Trieste in Northern Italy to research his long-lost great grandfather, Jacob meets Charlotte and Jane, and the three of them are forced to confront their individual and shared histories and piece together a future that none of them saw coming. A Perfect Mother asks big questions about what we inherit from the histories of our parents and grandparents, and about what it takes to be a good parent. It combines a plot-driven narrative with insightful commentary on motherhood, mental illness, identity and love. Born in France to an American mother and Austrian father, Katri has lived all over America and Europe and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Vassar, Cardiff and the University of East Anglia. A PERFECT MOTHER CAN BE PURCHASED FOR £15 IN HARDBACK. READ ALONG AND TWEET US YOUR THOUGHTS @CAMBSEDITION, WITH THE HASHTAG #EDITIONBOOKCLUB FOR A CHANCE TO FEATURE IN THE NEXT ISSUE.
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