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Hermit
- Author
- Jade Angeles Fitton
- Narrator
- Jade Angeles Fitton
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Publish Date
- 18 May 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in the destructive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete solitude. Slowly, with the help of Devon's salted cliffs and damp forested footpaths, Jade comes back to life and discovers the power of being alone.
Through conversations with other hermits across the world, Fitton sheds light on an extraordinary and misunderstood way of living which has survived into the 21st century - from monks, to hikikomori, and the often ignored female hermit.
Lyrically written, this is an inspirational story of recovery, of finding home and of celebration of solitude in the natural world.
©2023 Jade Angeles Fitton (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A dreamy, beautiful book about the consolations of solitude. In Hermit, Jade wanders a sunlit, windswept, delicately drawn landscape of loss and longing, and in doing so finds the stillness at the centre of herself. Hopeful and open-hearted.
Cal Flyn, author of 'Islands of Abandonment'
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A compelling, engrossing memoir that beautifully encapsulates the human experience (both the misery and the magic) of suddenly finding yourself rebuilding life from the ground up, alone. I loved it.
Emma Gannon
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Hermit is a beautiful written debut memoir drawing on the hermetic tradition that shows the power of being alone.
Katherine May, author of Wintering
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A book of spellbinding brilliance by a writer of rare talent.
Tristan Gooley
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This distinctive, alluring memoir, reminiscent of The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, relates how Fitton slowly learns to live alone and celebrate solitude in the natural world.
The Bookseller
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Written with often startling beauty, Hermit is an intimate account of the healing power of solitude. Though deeply personal, it explores universal truths about society and the human condition. A brave, brilliant and important book.
Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell
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I loved Hermit, hoovered it down in a day. Jade Angeles Fitton's life - from barns to huts to islands - is cleverly, brilliantly but honestly recorded. her search for boundary lines between herself and the beauty of the world is both engaging and true. She leaves us with an intense emotional understanding both of contemporary loneliness and the hermit's older companion, solitude - that state in which 'every living thing knows a secret.'
M. John Harrison, author of 'Climbers'
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In Hermit, Jade Angeles Fitton embarks on a heroic quest of self-discovery, creating in the process a beautiful, sensitive work about the challenges and solace of the natural world.
Catherine Taylor
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Fitton brings heart, body and soul to this compelling story of deliberate living. A book about solitude - hers and other people's - that runs rich with love for the natural world
Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep
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In Hermit, Fitton has actually created that very thing for which she yearns: a place of serenity and calm and reflection. Reading it, I felt the overheated racket of the world recede, even as I attained further knowledge of its workings. It's a forest glade of a book: a hidden shore; a moorland escarpment where the voices you hear are the only ones that truly matter. It's a peace not reached without struggle and fight, which is true of all the best and necessary things.
Niall Griffiths, author of 'Stump'
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Details
- Author
- Jade Angeles Fitton
- Narrator
- Jade Angeles Fitton
- Duration
- 8 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 May 2023
- ISBN
- 9781804944820
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: religious and spiritual, Popular philosophy, Popular psychology, Coping with / advice about loneliness / solitude, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, Nature therapy
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in the destructive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete solitude. Slowly, with the help of Devon's salted cliffs and damp forested footpaths, Jade comes back to life and discovers the power of being alone.Through conversations with other hermits across the world, Fitton sheds light on an extraordinary and misunderstood way of living which has survived into the 21st century - from monks, to hikikomori, and the often ignored female hermit.Lyrically written, this is an inspirational story of recovery, of finding home and of celebration of solitude in the natural world.©2023 Jade Angeles Fitton (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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