Stone Will Answer: Beatrice Searle

A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft, by young stone mason Beatrice Searle. A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.
‘A magnificent book’ Alex Woodcock
‘Exceptional’ Kerri Andrews. At the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral stonemason Beatrice Searle crossed the North Sea and walked 500 miles along a medieval pilgrim path through Southern Norway, taking with her a 40-kilogram Orcadian stone. Fascinated with the mysterious footprint stones of Northern Europe and the ancient Greco-Roman world, stones closely associated with travellers, saints and the inauguration of Kings, she follows in their footsteps as her stone becomes a talisman, a bedrock and an offering to those she meets along the way. Is an unusual adventure story of journeys practical, spiritual and geological, of weight and motion, and an insight into a beguiling craft.