Twelve Moons: The most beautiful and inspiring memoir you’ll read

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It also lead to the uncomfortable realisation that I compare my own mothering with others far more than I should, my own always coming up short.

The cycle of the same routines we all go through, even when big things change, we still carry on doing the same daily things with the same people. Finally, in addition to these conflicting emotions regarding the tone of the book, I found myself a little frustrated by some repetitious phrasing and inconsistencies in terms of timelines. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. It was a gentle, moving and beautifully written account of a woman and mother on the margins, by virtue of the familial circumstances in which she found herself. Yet we see, she is gravity to the four girls in orbit around her, her own anxiety waxing and waning over the months, as the landscape around them and the turn of the seasons become her refuge.This is a debut memoir that will particularly resonate with anyone who has had their life smashed apart and needed to dig deep, just to keep going. The biggest thing that riled me was Giles' constant references to her ex-husband and the almost pining quality to these sections. The familiar certainty of its stages helped provide a certainty and reassurance in contrast to the unpredictability of life.

It is to nature that the family turn to time and time again to give them strength during troubled times, never more so than when they turn to the moon in its ever-changing guises, yet setting the rhythm to the year and ever constant in their shifting lives. An incredibly beautiful book, simultaneously a love letter to Northumberland and a seasonal portray as life as a woman/parent/carer. She evokes the lives of her 4 amazing daughters, The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One with honesty, compassion and clarity.

It was funny to read the description of jesmond - I could tell exactly where she was, it's really fun when a book includes a place you know.