About the Author

Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC, Winter Papers and others. She is the author of Thin Places, which was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. @kerri_ni

Reviews

'Raw, visionary, lucid and mystical, Cacophony of Bone speaks of the connection between all things, and the magic that can be found in everyday life' - KATHERINE MAY

'I am a little in awe of Kerri ni Dochartaigh's work - the clarity and disinhibition of her storytelling; the wild freedom of her prose. Here is a brave and bold book, and one that deserves to be read, then read again' - HELEN JUKES

'Kerri ni Dochartaigh is one of those rare writers - like Dickinson, like Blake - whose way of seeing and being burns fierce and bright. Out from a year of intense isolation comes this hope-giving story about a soul taking flight and new life taking root' - TANYA SHADRICK

'Kerri ni Dochartaigh's words have a rare power to chime with her readers' souls. Raw, honest, and beautiful, I know I'll return to Cacophony of Bone monthly, seasonally and yearly to be moved and healed by this stunningly intimate book' - MOLLY AITKEN

'Kerri ni Dochartaigh is something of a modern-day mystic, a writer of acute sensitivity and wonder. There is such beauty, such pain, such rawness in this diary of an extraordinary year - you read it feeling quickened, awakened - that you, too, are missing a layer of skin. It's a very special book indeed' - LUCY CALDWELL