My Debut Book is Here - 'The Edge of Everything'
Hi everyone,
It's been a while, and apologies for the radio silence here, but I've been working on something very special behind the scenes. My debut book, 'The Edge of Everything', is to be published next week with The H'mm Foundation. It's a pinch me moment for sure!
Here are a couple of links where you can purchase my book:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-edge-of-everything/lottie-williams//9781068505393
https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-edge-of-everything/lottie-williams/9781068505393
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=lottie+williams&crid=CC0ZTFMY4W7U&sprefix=lottie+williams%2Caps%2C76&ref=nb_sb_noss
Inside the gorgeous front cover, painted by my equally gorgeous cousin Lucy (lucye_letters on Insta), is a collection of essays on place and love, joy and grief. I pop back to my own childhood, look to my children's futures, explore beaches, hills and rivers. It is fused with elements of the climate and ecological emergency, of my dad dying, and of love and belonging outliving absolutely everything. Hope lives on!
Here are some blurbs by writers I truly respect and admire, to give you a further flavour of what to expect:
Grief is never far away, prompting Williams to contemplate the big questions about time, human existence, and environmental fragility. But far from plunging into melancholy, her questing and attentiveness to nature serves to intensify her appreciation and love for her family, friends and this planet, and help her to navigate loss. What emerges is a poignant celebration of life, and living in the moment. - Julie Brominicks, author of The Edge of Cymru.
Infused with a fierce love for family and the natural world, Lottie Williams illuminates the majesty and magnificence to be found in otherwise unremarkable quotidian moments. To read The Edge of Everything is to look at the world anew. - Carole Hailey, author of The Silence Project and Scenes from a Tragedy.
With a deft hand, Williams takes us on a physical and emotional journey through the past and present. Grief and love walk alongside red kites, a smiling child, the spirit of a river, her words shining as brightly as the stars she writes so wondrously about. - Gaynor Funnell, author of Penbanc: Notes from a Welsh Farmhouse, and winner of the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award 2022.
Williams animates her world with musical precision, with memories that are wide-eyed with wonder and loss. This is achingly lovely, attentive prose - a gift. - CJ Wagstaff, Winner of the Nigel Jenkins Literary Award 2024.
Love, Lottie xx
