my books
Chasing Fog
is a meditation on fog and mist, a love song to weather and nature’s power to transform
‘eerie and evocative’ - Cal Flyn | ‘haunting and beautiful’ - Rebecca Schiller |
‘lushly sensuous’ - Sharon Blackie | 'a beautiful adventure' - Alice Vincent |
‘a lovely meander through foggy landscapes and their meanings’ - Katherine May |
‘a delight for anyone whose heart thumps at the sight of dawn, dusk and hazy light’
- Nell Frizzell
‘An exquisite piece of nature writing’ ― i
‘Part nature writing, part memoir. It features the same signature writing style that pulls her readers along, as if walking just a step or two behind her as she explores'
― Western Daily Press
‘a frequently beguiling and thought-provoking book, one that offers a way of looking at the world and its weather in a subtly different light' ― Literary Review
‘Pashby takes us into the heart of fog and conjures it powerfully — you are there with her in the mists and sea fret […] this book, which captures the weird wonderfulness of fog, may make a convert out of you too.’
— Evening Standard
‘Ms Pashby provides, as it were, a clear guide to our past foggy thinking, be it pixies leading travellers astray on a blanketed Dartmoor or the Romantics’ belief that the weather condition was a manifestation of sublimity… [a] bravo to brume’
– John Lewis-Stempel (writing in Country Life)
is about the beauty of ordinary days, and the magic that we find when we pay attention to the details of our lives.
‘I have gained so much from your beautiful book, it has delivered such solace to me these last weeks as I consider the role of creativity, inspiration and beauty in dark times.’
— Kerri ní Dochartaigh (author of Thin Places & Cacophony of Bone)