{"product_id":"tending-how-care-binds-the-world","title":"Tending: How Care Binds The World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exquisite. May writes with extraordinary honesty, grace, and intimacy about the shifting demands that life brings to bear on us. She conjures both internal and external landscapes with clarity, acuity, precision and lyricism. It's an absolute must-read'\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Macdonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'All May's books are like candles in the darkness . . . Katherine\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMay is an emotional emergency service!' \u003c\/b\u003eCaitlin Moran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWintering\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEnchantment\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a heartfelt meditation on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe secret labour of care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen her husband falls seriously ill, Katherine May finds herself thrown into the world of multigenerational care, trying to hold together home and family as they spin determinedly apart. In the midst of this endless cycle of domestic and emotional work, and ever alert to the precarity of the familial threads that threaten to break, May finds solace in the gentle labour of the garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith one foot always in the wild, \u003ci\u003eTending\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely exploration of connection, community, mortality and how our duties of care shift radically in midlife.  Drawing on art, mythology, philosophy and the natural world,  it asks what it means to give - and receive - care, capturing both the hardship and the transcendence, and inviting us to see its unsung work as the beating heart of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Such careful, beautiful thinking and writing about fear and pain and love and consolation. I loved it' \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stunning . . . it's like she's weaved it together with tiny silk threads. So very pleasurable to read' \u003c\/b\u003eEmma Gannon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katherine May","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67998387011762,"sku":"9780571383689","price":450.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780571383689.jpg?v=1794445422","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/tending-how-care-binds-the-world","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}