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Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
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2025
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2 editions
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"I approached this book from the perspective of someone interested in drystone walling having completed a brief course many years ago. My interest in the course was primarily to repair a retaining wall within my garden against annual earth heave. Of c"
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"This was really an awesome read. I love her style of writing. It's incredible how she puts all that misery and devastating stuff she had to go through in clear words. It's brutal to read at time because of her honesty. She doesn't spare anyone, not e"
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"In her unflinching memoir "Drystone: A Life Rebuilt", Kristie De Garis describes a Caithness childhood where, as a mixed race child, she experienced racism, abuse and prejudice; her years as an adult, a single mother and a functioning alcoholic in Ed"
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"Really really enjoyed this one. Kristie speaks with a clarity about her life experiences and we are a witness to both her undoing and her rebuilding, through drystone and through life. A top 10 read of this year. "
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If people are interested because I’m subverting the roles women are often forced into, then it’s not weird for me at all. That’s a conversation worth having. If they’re interested because they’re imagining salacious details, then it’s not just weird
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“Drystone is about using what you have to do what you need. What Caithness has is flagstone.”
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
“Put simply, when I realised I could build a wall that would last hundreds of years, men wanting to fuck me felt a little irrelevant.”
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
“Put simply, when I realised I could build a wall that would last hundreds of years, men wanting to fuck me felt a little irrelevant.”
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
― Drystone: A Life Rebuilt
