Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

by Jen Hadfield

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Poet and author Jen Hadfield offers a glimpse into her lush life living in the Shetland archipelagoan other-worldly landscape filled with fascinating lore. Hadfield details the familiar locals, ancient customs and complex history of the islands with her award-winning prose.

A stunning love letter to life in Shetland and a wilder way of living by celebrated poet Jen Hadfield.

'This book has been my friend' - Amy Liptrot, bestselling author of The Outrun

'I was transported' - KATHERINE MAY
'A book as exhilarating as a dip in wild winter waters' - THE GUARDIAN
'Deeply thoughtful and beautifully written' - SARAH MOSS
'A bewitching book' - THE TELEGRAPH

In her late twenties, poet Jen Hadfield moved to Shetland to make a new life. Here, in a rugged constellation of islands known for their isolation and drama, she found a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, an ancient language thrives, and a close-knit community is the beating heart of an entire world.

In Storm Pegs, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local, introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529038019
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	07/11/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jen Hadfield was the youngest poet to win the T. S. Eliot Prize for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place, which was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has also won an Eric Gregory Award and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition. She lives in Shetland with her family. Storm Pegs is her debut book of prose.
Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her collection The Stone Age won the Highland Book Prize in 2022.