{"product_id":"small-bodies-of-water-9781838852184","title":"Small Bodies of Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn lyrical, powerful prose, \u003ci\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable book . . . Its language trembles on the brink of poetry; these sentences have surety to their rhythms, subtlety to their weightings. Beautifully, dreamily, intricately, it explores movement, migration and memory. Identity, here, is experienced as liquid, as fluent. \u003ci\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize, and it's my belief that Shepherd would have loved this book - and would have wanted to walk and swim with Nina, talking of all that her book brings to the surface -- ROBERT MACFARLANE\u003cbr\u003eNina Mingya Powles is a distinctive new voice: attentive and tender. Her experience of belonging to many places is one that so many of us can relate to. This book is a beautiful personal journey through plants and sea creatures, food and language . . . A gorgeous read -- AMY LIPTROT\u003cbr\u003eElegant, understated, urgent and nourishing, this is a book that gives shape to the many intimate waters that connect us, to languages loved, lost and longed for, to the lands that honour us by giving us a home. With poetic precision, Nina Mingya Powles shows us what nature writing can be, braiding place, food, family, migration and all their legacies. This is non-fiction at its most dynamic, its most transporting. I will keep this book close by and return to it often -- JESSICA J. LEE\u003cbr\u003eSo cool and crystalline, but with deep currents of association shifting like tides beneath -- MELISSA HARRISON\u003cbr\u003eNature writing lovers will adore this collection of lyrical essays . . . Traversing Borneo to New Zealand to North London, it explores what bodies of water have meant to [Powles] while navigating girlhood and growing up *  * Evening Standard, Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year *  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e gave me such a longing for travel. It is so full of texture and taste and different kinds of light . . . Nina Mingya Powles takes very small moments and details and skilfully imbues them with poignancy and meaning. It feels like a renewed form of nature writing, in which nature is not necessarily to the fore but nonetheless ever-present; in which nature is a medium for remembering and discovering -- SARA BAUME\u003cbr\u003eVividly connected to nature . . . Captivating . . . Evocative literary sketches of Powles' life are drawn thoughtfully together . . . Mesmerising . . . Tender, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book -- Alycia Pirmohamed *  * Big Issue *  *\u003cbr\u003eA tender and tactile meditation on the elements that hold us together and keep us apart, \u003ci\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous, flowing book. Nina Mingya Powles's mind shimmers -- SEÁN HEWITT\u003cbr\u003eA shimmering, poetic masterpiece *  * Time Out *  *\u003cbr\u003eA hauntingly beautiful work - as deep and varied as the bodies of water it explores - and just as affecting. Powles writes of the body, the self and the natural world in ways I've not experienced before; full of raw and glistening truth. This book is exquisite and perfectly formed and reflective and it leaves ripples on your insides like the sea. The writing is off the scale -- KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868610212183,"sku":"9781838852184","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781838852184.jpg?v=1722288861","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/small-bodies-of-water-9781838852184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}