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  • Stone Will Answer

  • A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology
  • By: Beatrice Searle
  • Narrated by: Beatrice Searle
  • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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By: Beatrice Searle
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A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.

At the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral stonemason Beatrice Searle crossed the North Sea and walked 500 miles along a medieval pilgrim path through Southern Norway, taking with her a 40-kilogram Orcadian stone.

Fascinated with the mysterious footprint stones of Northern Europe and the ancient Greco-Roman world, stones closely associated with travellers, saints and the inauguration of Kings, she follows in their footsteps as her stone becomes a talisman, a bedrock and an offering to those she meets along the way.

Stone Will Answer is an unusual adventure story of journeys practical, spiritual and geological, of weight and motion, and an insight into a beguiling craft.
©2023 Beatrice Searle (P)2024 Beatrice Searle
Women Crafts & Hobbies Travel Writing & Commentary
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"Extraordinary."—Guardian

"A magnificent book."—Alex Woodcock

"Exceptional."—Kerri Andrews

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Astonishingly good

A bewitching and unusual book, it doesn’t fit into one genre but spans travel, memoir, history, myth and art, all held together beautifully by artist and stonemason Beatrice Searle’s wonderfully unique perspective. This book somehow balances the raw reality of her gruelling physical and mental journey as she drags an enormous rock from Orkney to Noway, with her irresistibly self-aware idealism. She sweeps the reader along with her through her journey, presenting personal memories, myths and stories along the way, persuading us to believe in an undertaking that from first appearances seems utterly mad! It is beautiful written and just as beautifully read by the author herself.

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