Alice Maddicott
Alice Maddicott
Creativity | History
Alice Maddicott is a writer and artist from the West Country, where she also works on creative learning and community projects, currently for The Salisbury Museum. She has published poetry and received site-specific art commissions. She is the author of Cat Women: An Exploration of Feline Friendships and Lingering Superstitions and Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place.
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place
‘A compelling way of looking at the world.’
THE TLS
‘A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.’
TRAVIS ELBOROUGH, AUTHOR OF ATLAS OF VANISHING PLACES
‘Comforting and exploratory, both physically through travel and emotionally, evocatively, through art and literature. A beautiful blended work of time, place and history.’
Hannah Lily Stowe, author of Move Like Water
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‘A moving and thought-provoking exploration of changing senses of place over time, in the form of a kind of locography – life-writing through places and moments in place. Tender Maps is part memoir, part travel writing, part group biography, part social history, part cultural criticism. It will transport you to other places and times and leave you reflecting on your own tender maps.’
Polly Atkin, author of Some Of Us Just Fall
‘Tender Maps is a heartfelt, thought-provoking meditation on the “personality of place” and the profound interconnection between human emotion and the physical landscape. It will enliven your senses and enrich your experience of the world around you.’
Rebecca Lowe, author of The Slow Road to Tehran
‘Intimate, whimsical and utterly magical … A unique and memorable read, it’s perfect for those who prefer to stray far from the path in hope of falling off the map altogether.’
Buzzmag
CAT WOMEN: AN EXPLORATION OF FELINE FRIENDSHIPS AND LINGERING SUPERSTITIONS
CAT WOMEN: AN EXPLORATION OF FELINE FRIENDSHIPS AND LINGERING SUPERSTITIONS
‘This whimsical project is so satisfyingly of a piece with its subject.’
Hephzibah Anderson, Observer
‘It is really a rather lovely thing. Quietly clever, intriguing, beautiful.’
Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words
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‘This thoughtful and gorgeously presented book, elevates the often derrided topic, women’s relationships with their cats, to something profound and illuminating. What I particularly loved was how the author manage to create something deeply personal but also well researched and universal. This book is the perfect gift for a thoughtful person who values the important and often mysterious bond we have with our furry friends. The found photographs are an absolute joy.’
Alice
‘This is a book in two parts. The introduction recounts recounts the author’s love for a special cat, and becomes an interesting account of the historic associations between women and cats, often seen as suspicious – witches, crazy cat ladies – looking at the background of superstition as well as fascinating anecdotes about a few famous cat-lovers. The rest of the book is a collection of “found” historic photographs of women and girls with cats. Each photo is accompanied by a imaginative recreation of the relationship depicted, bringing the women and cats back to life in a few sympathetic fictional paragraphs.
A celebration of the bond between woman and cat, it’s a nice book for dipping in and out of, has a thought-provoking introduction, and would make a good present for a cat-loving friend.’
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