THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal, changing body as related. As a scout, Alice Wickenden's personal experiences of growing up and developing both sexual and nonsexual relationships were all seen through the mirror of camping. A vital and engaging text, THRIFTWOOD provides a starting point for jumping off and thinking about puberty, while also incorporating thoughts on a wide variety of things such as Shakespeare, The Vaccines, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fairy tales.
 
PRAISE for THRIFTWOOD:
 
‘A truly astonishing achievement, and a testament to what creative non-fiction writing can do at its very, very best — at its most daring, its most moving, and its most exquisite. Alice Wickenden uses stunningly beautiful prose to weave a personal history together with criticism and memoir to produce a piece of work you will never forget. Alice's observations about trauma and abuse, love and betrayal, memory and narrative, are as beautiful and moving as they are arresting and lucid and razor-sharp. She is an incredibly special writer and thinker and I'll read anything she writes. — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, My Body Keeps Your Secrets