Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology

A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft by a young stone mason and artist

'What are you doing? If you don't mind me asking?'

I say that we are taking this stone to Trondheim. I continue to tell her the story of Magnus and ancient Kings.

'Would you like to stand in it?' I ask. 'That is what it is for.'

At the age of twenty-six, Beatrice Searle crossed the North sea and walked 500 miles through Southern Norway on a medieval pilgrim path to ...