Holly Dawson

All of Us Atoms (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel that, like falling in love. Remembering is like falling in love with you, with us, again and again.

What makes us who we are? What stories do we inherit - and leave behind?

Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, a writer revisits the moments that changed her - from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health. Through shifting pronouns and perspectives, moving across place and time, each piece twists the kaleidoscope of existence to make sense of the present through the past. From the opening battle between her brain and her body, a conversation emerges between her collection of selves: the Daughter, the Sister, the Dancer, the Gardener, the Mother, the Girl-Who-Read-Woolf. Reliving her journey of becoming, she unpicks the fabric of fact and experience to stitch a new tapestry of personhood, both real and imaginary, mundane and profound.

All of Us Atoms offers a tender portrait of the tension between our drive to make sense of things and the freedom that comes from throwing categories away. It heralds the arrival of a major new literary voice, urging us to reframe and reclaim our own stories and revel in our mutable, messy, multitudinous selves.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781837260072
• Artikelnr.: 72263500

Autorenporträt

Holly Dawson is a writer, editor and creative writing tutor, who lives in rural Sussex with far too many hens. Since 2018, she has been Reader-in-Residence at Charleston, where she gets to indulge her passion for Virginia Woolf and Modernist literature. Her plays, drawing on Bloomsbury diaries and letters, have been performed by actors including Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce, Miranda Richardson, Joanna Scanlon and Tobias Menzies. She is a researcher for Letters Live, and writes for commercial clients including IKEA. Her feature for the BBC about home received more than three million reads and led to a radio documentary, while her creative writing has been published by magazines including PANK, Short Fiction and Field.

@hollyjdawson hollyjdawson.com