- Published: 12 April 2022
- ISBN: 9781529107784
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $49.99
A Line Above the Sky
On Mountains and Motherhood
- Published: 12 April 2022
- ISBN: 9781529107784
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $49.99
A gorgeous memoir all about the great outdoors and the impulse to go to our limits
Evening Standard
Strong stuff, satisfying and intriguing to read
Sarah Moss, Irish Times
An intimate take on motherhood and self-dissolution, and the way mountains can come to fill the voids of a life
Economist
This is a wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer. It will make you want to get out into the mountains, and to get back home in one piece. A triumph.
Jon McGregor
This book is beautiful. I could read Helen Mort all day long...The book sang to me on many levels. It's spirited, visceral, earthy, defiant...A book I will re-read, and talk about, and pass on.
Emma Jane Unsworth
Deeply moving
New Statesman
This is a book of the seen and unseen; on being alive; on being wild; on being a woman. This book is about being a woman - both seen and unseen - alive and wild - in a world that needs new words for every single part of this. And my oh my, how Mort writes those new words.
Caught by the River
A candid and moving exploration of early motherhood...the writing is beautifully lyrical
Sophie Windgate, The I