Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year

Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year Hardcover – November 14, 2023by Kerri ní Dochartaigh (Author)---Brand New--A December 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellersA Kirkus Reviews “Most Anticipated Book of the Fall 2023”From the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year and finding home.Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was instead marked by uncertainty and fear. The seasons still passed, the swallows returned, the rhythms of the natural world went on, but in many ways 2020 was unlike any year we had seen before. And for Kerri there would be one more change: a baby, longed for but utterly, beautifully unexpected.Intensely lyrical, fragmentary