02440cam a2200373 i 4500 1648889257 TxAuBib 20241028120000.0 201126s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024017904 9780358097457 HRD 29.99 0358097452 HRD 29.99 (OCoLC)1224246132 TxAuBib rda Schaap, Rosie, author. The slow road north [BOOK] : how I found peace in an improbable country / Rosie Schaap. How I found peace in an improbable country. First edition. New York : Mariner Books, [2024] 260 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260). "Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful places--and getting paid to write about it. But under the surface she was reeling from the loss of her husband and her mother--who died just one year apart. Caring for them had claimed much of her daily life in her late thirties. Mourning them would take longer. It wasn't until a reporting trip took her to the Northern Irish countryside that Rosie found a partner to heal with: Glenarm, a quiet, seaside village in County Antrim. That first visit made such an impression she returned to make a life. This unlikely place--in a small, tough country mainly associated with sectarian strife--gave her a measure of peace that had seemed impossible elsewhere. Weaving personal narrative and social history, The Slow Road North is a moving and wise look at how a community can offer the key to healing. It's a portrait of a complicated place at a pivotal time--through Brexit, a historic school integration, and a pandemic--and a love letter to a village and a culture.". 20241028. Schaap, Rosie. Widows United States Biography. Journalists United States Biography. Bereavement Psychological aspects Biography. Grief Biography. Antrim (Northern Ireland : County) 21st century Biography. Autobiographies.