Wintering

by Katherine May

A deeply personal exploration of resilience, this book delves into how we can nurture and heal ourselves during life's unexpected challenges. When illness, loss, or change derails our plans, we can feel isolated and overwhelmed. For the author, a series of personal crises led her to embrace the transformative power of rest and retreat. Drawing from literature, myth, and nature, she shares her journey and offers insights into accepting sadness, finding joy in quiet moments, and understanding life's cycles. This secular spiritual guide helps us reframe our relationship with life's difficult phases.

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About the author

Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times became a New York Times, Sunday Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, is currently being adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood which she edited. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, The Observer and Aeon.

Katherine’s podcast, The Wintering Sessions, ranks in the top 1% worldwide, and she has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series. Her next book, Enchantment, will be published in 2023.

Katherine lives with her husband, son, two cats and a dog. She loves walking, sea-swimming and pickling slightly unappealing things.