Cacophony of Bone

by ni Dochartaigh, Kerri | Ireland
Published 04/01/2024 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 304 pages
128 x 198 x 23mm | 212g

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVELWhen 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 unlike any other.

Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of that year - a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life - from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world - and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on - living and breathing, nesting and dying - in spite of it all.

This is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.