Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen & The Electricity of Every Living Thing

by Katherine May

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How I learned to flourish when life became frozen & The Electricity of Every Living Thing By Katherine May 2 Books Collection

How I learned to flourish when life became
In Wintering, Katherine May recounts her own year-long journey through winter, sparked by a sudden illness in her family that plunged her into a time of uncertainty and seclusion. When life felt at is most frozen, she managed to find strength and inspiration from the incredible wintering experiences of others as well as from the remarkable transformations that nature makes to survive the cold.This beautiful, perspective-shifting memoir teaches us to draw from the healing powers of the natural world and to embrace the winters of our own lives.

The Electricity of Every Living
In August 2015, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating, and why the world felt full of inundation and expectations she can't meet. Setting her feet down on the rugged and difficult path by the sea, the answer begins to unfold. It's a chance encounter with a voice on the radio that sparks a realisation that she has Asperger's Syndrome.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

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.

Reviews

[Emma Filtness · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice reminder that lives are cyclical, that fallow periods or winters are essential, that there are ways to winter well. At times a little hard to connect with for me, but at other times it resonated, so overall an enjoyable and timely read - gentle, slow.

[Gail · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have heard about this book and was thrilled to get the opportunity to read it a new edition. Katherine May went through a difficult time and described it as a period of "wintering". She explores the seasons, tries new things and follows the same principles with her son when she takes him out of school because of his anxiety.
This is no trite treatise about alternative therapies. It's beautifully and ferociously written, full of verve abd curiosity. May reconnects with nature and the power of the seasons. She writes with intelligence and passion about migrants. I loved her descriptions of the forest, and how the trees and animals prepare all year for winter. The passages on swimming in the winter sea at Whitstable, and mingling with druids and others at Stonehenge for the winter Solstice, were so enlightening and memorable. Initially I was reading it alongside a thriller but the power of this book led me to discard its companion.

[Lucas Dane · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quiet, thoughtful book about retreat, rest, and resilience.
I didn’t know exactly what to expect, but the tone and pacing felt honest — like a companion for those slow, inward seasons of life.
Grateful books like this exist.

[Catherine Garibaldi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, some interesting bits but I think people need to sparkle rather than winter.

[MissMing · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book opened my eyes to the concept of wintering which feels natural to me. Very interesting read.

[CJParker · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting approach and well written

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started promising then veered off into what felt like page filler.

[Kelli Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book came at a time of wintering in my own life. It was full of stories of how wintering was meant to be a time of rest, and not just a cold dark season.