Enchantment

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It will do your soul good to read this.' NIGELLA LAWSON A balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering. Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. The magic is of our own conjuring. 'A total joy . . . Thoughtful, patient and beautifully written, like walking with a friend as dusk settles, this is the book your soul needs right now.' CARIAD LLOYD 'Beautifully written.' PHILIPPA PERRY Feeling bone-tired, anxious and overwhelmed by the rolling news cycle and the pandemic age, Katherine May seeks to unravel the threads of a life wound too tightly. Could there be another way to live - one that feels more meaningful, more grounded in the places beneath our feet? One that would allow us to feel more connected, more rested and at ease, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet? Craving a different path, May explores the restorative properties of the natural world and begins to rekindle her sense of wonder. It is a journey that takes her from sacred wells to wild moors, from cradling seas to starfalls. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she finds nourishment and a more hopeful relationship to the world around her. Enchantment is an invitation to each of us to experience life in all its sensual complexity and to find the beauty waiting for us there. Katherine May's book Enchantment was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10-03-2023

Katherine May is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Her hybrid memoir Wintering was a global bestseller, adapted as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Her book Enchantment became an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, was adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other books include The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology about motherhood which she edited. Katherine writes the popular Substack newsletter, The Clearing. Her writing had appeared in the New York Times, Observer, Wall Street Journal, Time and Aeon. She hosts the chart-topping podcast How We Live Now and guest presented for On Being's The Future of Hope series. Katherine lives by the sea in Whitstable, UK, with her husband, son and pets. She loves walking, sea-swimming and cooking enormous feasts.