• Saturday 5 April, 5.30pm
• Augustine Hall, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Tickets £14 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)

Whitstable-based, international bestselling author of Wintering Katherine May invites us to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all through engagement with the natural world.

In Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age, Katherine May explores the restorative properties of the natural world and begins to rekindle her sense of wonder. It is a journey that starts at a sacred well just outside Canterbury and goes onto wild moors, cradling seas and starfalls. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she finds nourishment and a more hopeful relationship to the world around her.

Hear Katherine May in conversation as she reflects on emerging into spring after winter’s seclusion and invites each of us to find the beauty waiting for us there.

‘Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. The magic is of our own conjuring.’

Katherine May is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Her hybrid memoir Wintering was a global bestseller, adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Her most recent title, Enchantment became an instant New York Times bestseller, and The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, was adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood which she edited. Katherine lives by the sea in Whitstable, UK, with her husband, son and pets. She loves walking, sea-swimming and cooking enormous feasts.