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A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood

4.24 (75 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Helen Mort

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'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor

'This book is beautiful' Emma Jane Unsworth

Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.

Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining her relationship with both the natural world and herself, as well as the way the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks.

A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger, and how we can find freedom in pushing our limits. It is a visceral love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether climbing a mountain or bringing a child into the world, and an unforgettable celebration of womanhood in all its forms.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 397g
  • Dimensions: 145 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Ebury Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529107784

About Helen Mort

Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985 and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. Her first collection Division Street (2013) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2014 she was named as a 'Next Generation Poet' the prestigious accolade announced only once every ten years recognising the 20 most exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland. No Map Could Show Them (2016) her second collection about women and mountaineering was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Helen has been the Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence and the Derbyshire Poet Laureate and was named one of the RSL's 40 under 40 Fellows in 2018. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield. Black Car Burning was her first novel and A Line Above the Sky is her first work of narrative memoir.

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