{"product_id":"a-line-above-the-sky-on-mountains-and-motherhood","title":"A Line Above the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eA highly-acclaimed future classic of climbing, memoir, and nature writing, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuardian Books to Watch 2022\u003cbr\u003eEvening Standard Books to Watch 2022\u003cbr\u003eBookseller Editor's Choice Winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book is beautiful' Emma Jane Unsworth'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a child, Helen Mort was drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's need to be hyperaware of the sensory world - to feel the texture of rock under their fingers, how their crampons bite into the ice, the subtle shifts in weather. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining this most elemental of disciplines and the way that we view women who put themselves in danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of Britain's most talented young writers, A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to create what will surely become a classic of the genre; it asks why humans are compelled to climb and poses other, deeper questions about self, motherhood and freedom. It is a love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether that in the risk of climbing a granite wall solo, without ropes, or the intensity of bringing a child into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salti Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45056544407586,"sku":"9781529107791","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/2871\/0178\/files\/9781529107791.jpg?v=1773213760","url":"https:\/\/www.saltireadscaloundra.com\/products\/a-line-above-the-sky-on-mountains-and-motherhood","provider":"Salti Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}