Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

A poignant celebration of the natural world and a harrowing memoir of one Irish family's experience during the Troubles.

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When s...