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'A powerful synthesis of perspective and self-determination' Irish Times 'Fascinating ... affecting ... illuminating ... [Carthew] has genuinely interesting things to say' The Sunday Times ''Most Cornish stories are told by outsiders, and are not Cornish stories at all... Natasha Carthew gives...

'A book to love and cherish' Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living 'A beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker' Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life 'Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness' Sarah Bakewell, Guardian At no time before have...

There's a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between the sun and the equator makes the water surface stronger, and it pulls and builds until we are left with what is known as great tides - but as I stand here on my childhood beach someplace in my 40s...

'Indispensable, engaging and brilliant book about the pervasiveness of loneliness in the twenty-first century and its far-reaching impact...a hopeful book that couldn't be more important or timely.' Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Even before a global pandemic...

Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured.

A TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice' Marian Keyes 'Radical... I really recommend it' Pandora Sykes 'Riveting' Elizabeth Day 'A perfect, funny, insightful, novel about women, friendship, and ageing' Nina Stibbe 'A lovely, lively, intelligent...