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Homesick: Why I Live In A Shed - Catrina Davies

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Shropshire Wildlife Trust

Shrewsbury

Saturday 23rd of November 2019

14:45

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Description

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.

"You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals" George Monbiot

"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

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/06/homesick-catrina-davies-review

Shropshire Wildlife Trust

Venue Type

Visitor Centre and Gift Shop

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Description

193 Abbey Foregate,

Shrewsbury,

Shropshire,

England,

SY2 6AH.

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