The Wild Track
- Author Margaret Reynolds
- Narrator Margaret Reynolds, Lucy Reynolds
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 25 February 2021
- Run Time 8 hours and 26 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Memoirs.
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How to find an outlet for a love that demands expression? Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, the realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly; she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny is intense. There are questions about past lives, about her own childhood, heritage, capabilities, expectations and identity.
This is a book about what makes a mother, and a home; how the legacies of childhood may impact on the experience of parenting; and how the pervasive nature of childhood trauma might be faced by a mother's determination to love.
© Margaret Reynolds 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
Exquisite. Beautifully written, The Wild Track is a deeply insightful memoir which charts displacement and our fundamental longings for place and identity and ultimately our yearnings for love.
This memoir is a triumph; an extraordinarily wise and rich analysis of what it means to belong, to a place and to beloved others. Deeply moving, richly allusive, surprising and thought-provoking, The Wild Track deserves to be one of the great successes of 2021.
A remarkable book. Wise and arresting in its candour.
Enlightening…The Wild Track is a passionate, heartfelt exploration of a woman who wants to be a mother. I found it utterly compelling.
Extremely moving…an unusually thoughtful take on becoming a mother, enabled by removing babyhood and biology. A testament to the joy of finding home and belonging…the precariousness of the care system is painfully felt and it’s this that makes Reynolds’s book such a necessary contribution to the literature on motherhood.
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