I am thrilled to be sharing my thoughts with you on this amazing read.
Walking in the Footsteps of Walker Women is a collection of stories documenting real, resilient, remarkable women in a community in Newcastle.
These awareness raising accounts share triumph over trauma, community connection, evolving gender roles and, and the history of their home suburb.
The location may be Walker but the themes are universal and demonstrate our collective need for place, people and purpose.
Bobs and Books honest review:
This was the collection I didn't know I needed, but I feel enriched, empowered and enlightened for having read it.
There are some moments as a reviewer when a book falls on your door mat and you pick up to glance at a couple pages and sit there totally absorbed and read the entire thing. This is one of those books. I was totally entranced.
This has such a fantastic group of women, with whom I feel honoured to have shared their story with me. One woman, Kristine said that the community is comfy and accepting like a pair of slippers, and that's how I felt reading this. I felt like I'd walked into a group of women who welcomed me with a cuppa to have a natter and chat to tell me about their lives.
Do not underestimate these women! They are strong, powerful, honest and brave for telling their stories. This is a diverse group of voices and the stories do not always make for comfortable reading but this makes them so real, true to self and authentic. This book I know will stay with me and stole a piece of my heart with these stories. This gave them a moment to shine, and shine they do. I see them, hear them, I'm listening. They are invisible no more.
Helen Aitchison and Write on the Tyne is one to watch. Based on this book alone, I think they will make waves in the publishing industry and I look forward to see what's next.
Moving, emotional, surprising but its also bold, fierce and so empowering. Fabulous.
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