Thin Places
A Natural History of Healing and Home

I have some mixed feelings about this book. There are no half stars on Goodreads, and 3 stars felt mean so I have plumped for 4. I had different views of this book as a reader than as a writer. As a reader I got one level of enjoyment, as a writer I think I learnt something. Dochartaigh is, at her b......more

This poetic meandering memoir is something truly special. The book wanders along memories and observations of nature and along trains of thought. The author isn't interested in efficiency, but in discovery and in describing a process of healing from trauma that she experienced but doesn't fully unde......more

I really struggled with this book. I think I thought it would be more about nature than it was. That's not to say that it wasn't, but the focus and drive of the book is the author's working through her incredibly traumatic life and the key events in that journey that led her home. She references the......more

Thin Places is something of an enigma, when I bought it, I thought it was in the nature writing genre, the inside cover calls it a mix of memoir, history and nature writing - such a simplistic description of the reading experience, which for me was something else. Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying......more

This is a powerful memoir by Irish writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh. She writes poignantly about how out of experiencing so much violence, poverty, trauma, and struggles with suicide, she found healing and hope through love, therapy, poetry, landscape, community, identity, and Celtic thin places in Irela......more