Just finished reading The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, as recommended by Catherine from my course. I enjoyed it, although I found some of the themes difficult as Raynor's husband has a terminal diagnosis. It was nice to read about places I knew, and she covers some interesting ground around how they are treated, mostly for being homeless. I did find a nice quote:
"We lay in the tent at the edge of Lyme Regis, on a patch of grass between the lobster pots and the chalets, and let death in. And life came with it. The jagged, shattered, lost fragments of our lives slowly, mercurially drawn back together."
Again the acceptance of death not as an act of despair, but as an act of healing - of bringing together two colours - life and death - so each shines more vividly next to it's complement.
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