we know that new possibilities may be created only if we surrender to uncertainty.

And yet somehow she was different. Her eyes and hair and skin were shining; and something in the way she held her body told Mara that she was at peace and at home with herself once more.

She is living an unlived life, estranged from her own sense of authenticity, dried up and disconnected from intimacy – with herself, with others, with the world. Now she has heard the Call. She knows that she needs a new source of nourishing moisture to quench her aridity. What can she do? How can she find her lost skin? Is it even possible? What i

The cultural narrative is the culture.

Above all songs, she’ll love to hear ‘The Sealwoman’s Sea-Joy’, written to express the delight of the Selkie who finds her lost skin.

It comes from conviction, from understanding and owning our stories, from a strong sense of who we are and what our place is in the world.

their written words formed the new and only permitted truth.

a large annexe to her Gloucestershire house which conveys an overwhelming sense of clarity, of warm, light space and pale, restful furnishings. ‘It doesn’t look like an office on purpose,’ Polly tells me. ‘And that comes out of wanting to create my own intimate space, rather than a homogenised workspace. A place which can reflect the creativity and

I felt as if I was shape-shifting, actually becoming the land and the wildlife all around me. There were times where I felt non-human. Not surprisingly, that made it hard to relate to other people socially. I spoke about death often as well, which didn’t help. I had such a strong sense of isolation and alienation from society, and in some ways, tha