Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
From her sitting room in England, on a video call, Edith watched her granddaughter marry in Australia, because the fear of the flight there was a thing her body simply would not permit her to do. She was sixty-two, and her fear of flying had, over the years, quietly shrunk her life to the size of what she could reach by land and sea. It had not always been this way. She had flown, in her younger years, with only ordinary nervousness. But after a particularly turbulent flight that had frightened her badly, the nervousness had hardened into a real and mounting dread, and she had begun, first, to fly only when she absolutely had to, and then, gradually, not at all, until flying had become unthinkable, a thing her body simply would not let her do. And.
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
