Ripening

In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir and modern day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection.<BR>'Mind-blowing. An anthem for all we could be ... I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it.' Manda Scott, author of Boudica and A Treachery of Spies<BR>'If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted, like trees. <BR>'And if we rise up rooted, like trees . . . well then, women might indeed save not only ourselves, but the world.'<BR>Like Women who Run with the Wolves, this is powerful rallying cry to women to embrace a different kind of femininity. Described as both transformative and essential, Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful females in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary women who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future.<BR>Beautifully written, honest and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.

THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR<BR>OF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IF<BR>WOMEN ROSE ROOTED 'You and me against the<BR>world, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against<BR>each other.'Cat Munro - who has never taken<BR>a day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flying<BR>lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only<BR>of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village<BR>where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father. Though<BR>they are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them.<BR>From the excoriating heat of<BR>the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie's<BR>soaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, and<BR>of storytelling, in women's lives. Above all, The Long<BR>Delirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption. 'It is<BR>that rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority<BR>... The ending is powerful, <BR>filmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, but<BR>rarely reach.' The Scotsman