Katherine May in Conversation with Sally Haldorson | Author Interview - Porchlight x Boswell Books

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Previously live-streamed on February 16, 2022: Boswell Books and Porchlight Book Company present an interview with Katherine May, author of The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The New York Times best-selling author of Wintering writes a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace with our own unquiet minds....
In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted time alone, in nature, to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating; and why the world felt full of expectations she couldn't meet. She was also reeling from a chance encounter with a voice on the radio that sparked her realisation that she might be autistic.
And so begins a trek along the ruggedly beautiful but difficult path by the sea that takes readers through the alternatingly frustrating, funny, and enlightening experience of re-awakening to the world around us....
The Electricity of Every Living Thing sees Katherine come to terms with that diagnosis leading her to re-evaluate her life so far - with a much kinder, more forgiving eye. We bear witness to a new understanding that finally allows her to be different rather than simply awkward, arrogant or unfeeling. The physical and psychological journeys of this joyous and inspiring book become inextricably entwined, and as Katherine finds her way across the untameable coast, we learn alongside her how to find our way back to our own true selves.
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KATHERINE MAY is the author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times and The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home. A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, May's articles and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, The Times (London), Good Housekeeping, and Cosmopolitan. She lives by the sea in Whitstable, England and is an avid lover of the outdoors.
Katherine was in conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
SALLY HALDORSON's mission as Porchlight’s Managing Director is to make Porchlight a great place to work for employees, and a consistently high-performing service organization for everyone in or orbiting the publishing industry. After 25 years working in book retail, she has developed a penchant for business strategy, both as a socio-economic force and a literary genre. Happy to put her English and Creative Writing degrees to work, she helped craft three editions of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, and she reads, writes, and reviews for the company’s marketing team.