Annabel Abbs is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes regularly for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and lives in London, with her husband and four children. Her novels, The Joyce Girl and Frieda, were published to great acclaim.
Abbs's newest novel is Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship.
Her first foray into memoir and her first solo-authored non-fiction book is Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women.
At Electric Lit she tagged eight books about women walking in nature. One title on the list:
Read about another entry on the list.I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
After a traumatic incident in which she was racially abused, Sethi sets out to walk one of England’s wildest, most remote trails: the Pennine Way. On this journey of reclamation, she reflects on issues of belonging and identity, eloquently linking the outer landscape to her inner emotional topography. In the wilderness, she experiences the kindness of strangers, the space to wonder, and the therapeutic properties of untamed nature.
--Marshal Zeringue