WINNER OF THE CORNISH LITERARY GUILD SALVER, 2012. The playwright Nick Darke loved Cornwall, where he was born and where he lived with his wife Jane and their family. They were as one with each other and the place. They worked in the same house, fished together, explored the coast and landscape together and kept the traditions of beachcombing, lobster fishing and preservation of coastal ecology alive. After Nick died Jane struggled with grief and was lost, unsure of how to rebuild her life. She had defined herself as a wife and mother and now she had to rediscover who she was before her marriage and embrace the new possibilities of life, artistic and personal.As Jane grieved she found her own ambitions and creativity as an artist and filmmaker. She began to find her own place and identity in Cornwall, drawing inspiration from the sea and strength from her family. It is her love of the Cornish coast and her daily walks along the beach that allow her to find a new individuality that embraces all she had shared with her husband, and discovers just how their relationship will continue to sustain her.
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A very favourable comparison between Held by the Sea and Joan Didion s Year of Magical Thinking... Jane mourns with the sea constantly in her sights... Anyone who knows the beaches of North Cornwall will know that they are possessed of a special kind of light, well-recognised by the Newlyn artists... somehow I sensed that light reflected in the pages of Held by the Sea. There is grace here along with that life-saving glimmer of hope for anyone feeling that pain of loss. --DoveGreyReader
A profound book. It describes factually and lyrically the many aspects of grief, of loss, of rebuilding a life after a partner s death... Her reflection on death, life, love, labour, fishing, creating, surviving and thinking confirms the essence of life in everything and the important part that death plays in emphasising what life means. --Western Morning News
It takes a strong woman to present their grief to the world and Jane Darke does a tremendous job of it in this book. A truly emotional read that will leave you with a tear in your eye and a heart full of admiration. --Cornish Today
A profound book. It describes factually and lyrically the many aspects of grief, of loss, of rebuilding a life after a partner s death... Her reflection on death, life, love, labour, fishing, creating, surviving and thinking confirms the essence of life in everything and the important part that death plays in emphasising what life means. --Western Morning News
It takes a strong woman to present their grief to the world and Jane Darke does a tremendous job of it in this book. A truly emotional read that will leave you with a tear in your eye and a heart full of admiration. --Cornish Today
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Jane Darke is a painter and filmmaker based in north Cornwall. Her film, The Art of Catching Lobsters , dealt with the death of her husband, Nick, and was described by the Daily Telegraph as a simple touching insight into love and grief while the Daily Mail reviewed it as one of the most heartbreaking and uplifting programmes of the year . She was awarded the First Director award at the Celtic Film and Television Festival for her first film, The Wrecking Season .
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Set against the backdrop of the wild Cornish coastline, this book follows the author's bid to come to terms with the loss of her husband Nick, before recharting their romance - retelling the story of their lives together. I think it is an amazing insight into a process rarely dealt with in any medium and contains beautiful descriptions of the nature surrounding the author. Challenging in places, I found this to be an uplifting and life-affirming read.
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A brave, honest memoir about love and loss, Held by the Sea is also an intimate portrait of the author's husband, the playwright, Nick Darke, and a meditation on Cornwall and its natural history. Writing with a lyrical intensity, she negotiates the strange, lonely madness of grief and the peculiarities of widowhood with warmth and wit. She describes the twenty-five years she spent with Nick candidly and sets their relationship and her unfolding grief within the landscape of the North Atlantic Coast, finding solace in the ocean waves, the shifting sands, fishing, the minutiae of rockpools and the moon. Thoroughly recommended.
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