Incredibly moving. To find peace and a sense of home after a life so profoundly affected by the housing crisis, is truly inspirational' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path*
Aged thirty-one,
Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she
shared with four other adults and a child.
Working several jobs
and never knowing if she could make the rent, she felt like she was
breaking apart. Homesick for the landscape of her childhood, in the far
west of Cornwall, Catrina decides to give up the box-room and face her
demons. As a child, she saw her family and their security torn apart;
now, she resolves to make a tiny, dilapidated shed a home of her own.
With the freedom to write, surf and make music, Catrina rebuilds the
shed and, piece by piece, her own sense of self. On the border of
civilisation and wilderness, between the woods and the sea, she
discovers the true value of home, while trying to find her place in a
fragile natural world. This is the story of a personal housing crisis
and a country-wide one, grappling with class, economics, mental health
and nature.
It shows how housing can trap us or set us free, and what it means to feel at home.
Homesick : Why I Live in a Shed - Catrina Davies
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