- Published: 19 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781473598645
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Ponies At The Edge Of The World
On nature, belonging and finding home
- Published: 19 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781473598645
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
'A meditation on connection between humans and animals, and the homes we make in wild places. I was completely immersed in this remote landscape'
Katherine May, bestselling author of WINTERING
'Poetic and generous'
Times Literary Supplement
'Uplifting and moving'
BBC Radio 2
'An unforgettable portrait of a sense of place'
Jim Crumley, author of THE NATURE OF SPRING
'Striking'
The Times
'A meditative, exultant sojourn that illuminates the importance of working with nature, and of its importance in all we do and experience, and of living in the moment.'
Polly Pullar, author of A DROP IN THE OCEAN
'Intelligent in observation and precise and elegant in her writing, Catherine Munro shows how people and animals live and respond to each other, particularly in island communities like Shetland. She shows great insight into the way both the seasons and the sea's strong winds affect people in places like these'
Donald S Murray, author of In a Veil of Mist
'The Shetland isles and Shetland ponies, the double-down dream, woven with admiration, the narrator's craft, and some healthy, clear-eyed insight. I damn loved it'
John Lewis-Stempel, bestselling author of MEADOWLAND
'A thoughtful appeal for us to re-examine our ideas of community and our relationship with the wild'
The Observer