Ghost Lake

Wendy Pratt is a poet, author, editor and workshop facilitator living and working on the North Yorkshire coast, where she grew up. She is the author of five collections of poetry. Her collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet award in 2021. She is founder and editor in chief of Spelt Magazine and facilitates online and in person writing courses and workshops.

'Remarkable' OBSERVER'Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES'Wendy Pratt has created a shimmering, liminal space of loss that lifts us up and carries us with such tenderness and beauty that we come out the other side transformed' VICTORIA BENNETT, ALL MY WILD MOTHERS'A fascinating, haunting pilgrimage through a personal and collective past… a moving exploration through the ages, excavating clues as to what it means to be alive, to be human, to belong' JADE ANGELES FITTON, HERMIT'A powerful exploration of loss, place, connection and self, every page running rich with poetic detail. I devoured it slowly, wanting to savour every word' ADAM FARRER, COLD FISH SOUP'Both intimate and universal, Wendy Pratt’s brave and luminous memoir reminds us of the healing power of landscape to connect us not just to the ancient people who once lived on the land we now call home, but also to ourselves' SARAH LANGFORD, ROOTED'From the tender rituals of caring for her daughter’s grave to her thoughtful exploration of nearby burial chambers, Wendy Pratt interlaces the strands of her life to form a moving memoir of finding belonging. The Ghost Lake invokes the generative power of setting your own creative path through life and illustrates the importance of attuning to nature' SALLY HUBAND, SEA BEAN'A mesmerising and deeply sensory lyric memoir that will carry you with it as it journeys across and into the archive of the landscape, unearthing treasures in the debris of grief, difference and loss’ POLLY ATKIN, SOME OF US JUST FALL'Wendy Pratt uses her connection to her beloved Yorkshire landscape to travel back and forward in time, examining how we can honour our ways of thinking instead of being afraid of them, and how a self can be lost and found again’ KIM MOORE, ALL THE MEN I NEVER MARRIED'Beautifully written, haunting and deeply affecting… will resonate with readers in different ways' YORKSHIRE POST