The Unbound Press is over the moon to announce that Lucy Lowes Paget has signed with us to publish her forthcoming book, The Home Tree.
About The Home Tree, Lucy shares:
Drawing on her understanding of nature connection, the psychobiology of trauma and her own life experiences, Lucy shows us how to recover from trauma, restore fullness of heart, colour back in a greyed out life and tread with gentle bravery on a path that is uniquely our own. Lucy weaves what is real with mythical imagining in a book that is both heartbreaking and heart warming, poetic, and is a fierce call to our modern day ecological wise women who are struggling to remember their own wisdom.
This story shares a place at the table with women and good mothers who can no longer bear to live the lives they are living. Instead, they choose a path of wild living to re-infuse colour and wonder in their souls in spite of the risks of being cast as a wicked woman. In this sharing, Lucy also takes her readers on a journey through her own path of moving between the UK and Canada and then eventually settling in Nicaragua, where she created her own off-grid farm – realising along the way that living the life of her dreams wasn't quite as she imagined…
Lucy says, “If I were to sit at a table with others who have paved the way for me to write what I write, it is these names that rise to the forefront of my mind: Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Stephen Porges, Babette Rothschild, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Sharon Blackie.”
About Lucy:
Lucy is a creator, a writer, a mother and a wellness maven (an osteopath and a yoga teacher). She lives in Nicaragua, in Central America, with her children and animals on a five-acre organic jungle homestead.
Lucy’s life has been peppered with all sorts of adventures. She was born in England and moved to Canada as a teenager, where she went to school and got her first degree, fell in love with the mountains, learned to teach yoga, built a successful business, and started a family—not necessarily in that order.
For many years, Lucy’s full-time work was as an osteopath, but she always wrote in her spare time. As a child, she gobbled up books and feverishly wrote short stories whenever and wherever she could. As she grew up, that obsession translated into enrolments in writing courses and joining writing circles as a creative outlet. As an adult, Lucy brought a beautiful idea to life when she opened and ran an award-winning wellness clinic but although she was successful professionally, her creative yearnings were not satiated by the short bursts of time in which she wrote.
It was the experience of an incredible loss and subsequent burnout that finally led her to prioritise putting words on the page. Writing acted as a bridge for Lucy; the world on the page Lucy wrote about (for many years, magical realism) enabled her to take extraordinary steps in her life to change everything. And then, some years after breaking a good life and building a wild, possibly ill-advised, different life in the jungle in Nicaragua, Lucy began writing a memoir infused with nature writing and which will be the foundations of The Home Tree.
The Unbound Press can’t wait for the birth of this wild and wonderful memoir. We know that it will be brimming with magic and will inspire and bring colour to the lives of many powerful souls!
You can find out more about Lucy and her work using the details below:
Website: www.lucypaget.com
Instagram: @lucy.paget and @apothefinca
Substack: https://lucypaget.substack.com/
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