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Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human. She I Dare Not
Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply
intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on
the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and confession,
this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward
discovered in a life lived entirely without a partner and children.
The book describes what it is like to live on the edge of a world
built in the shape of couples and families. Rippling through these
pages is the way a spinster - or a bachelor, or any of us for that
matter - contends with the prejudice and stigma of being different.
With courage and astounding honesty Donna uncovers the challenge of
living with more solitude than anticipated and what it is like to
walk the road through midlife and beyond alone. And she reveals how
she found home and discovered herself within it. Funny, sharp, wise
and wry, She I Dare Not Name shows how reading saved this
spinster's life, and how friends and writing and walking brought a
contentment and sense of achievement she never thought possible.
'With a devastatingly clear-eyed honesty, the word Ward dares to
name is "spinster", and this meditative collection of essays spin
their own spell, making a deep dive into the world of female
solitude in all its guises. She lays it out like a calm tarot
reading: feminism, courage, silence, loneliness, grief, recovery
and the power of the generative idea, as well as all the labels
that come with carving out your own path of self-definition and
self-determination.' - Cate Kennedy, author of The World Beneath
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