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Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age: with Katherine May

Part of Brighton Festival 2024

After years of pandemic life – parenting while working, battling anxiety, feeling overwhelmed by the news-cycle and increasingly isolated – Katherine May feels bone-tired, on edge and depleted. Could there be another way to live? One that would allow her to feel less fraught and more connected, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet?

Exploring a different path in her new book, 'Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age', May looks at the restorative properties of the natural world – from a pebble in the hand to the humbling effects of the sea.

Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable. Her hybrid memoir 'Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times' was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. 'The Electricity of Every Living Thing', her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, is currently being adapted as an audio drama by Audible.