For Hope Is Always Born

What is the connection between the tenth century Moorish princess, Casilda, and a young Jewish woman, Miriam, completing a Masters degree in contemporary Toledo? What links both to the Spanish singer, Casilda Faertes and to her mother, another Miriam, born in Budapest and raised in Nice?
Spanning a thousand years and bringing together the stories of three generations of women in North-east England, Budapest and Spain, For Hope is Always Born, follows on from This is the End of the Story and A Remedy for All Things to ask huge questions about identity and the nature of love and loss.

Jan Fortune is a writer, mentor and herbalist living in a forest in Finistère. She has a doctorate in feminist theology and is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press. Jan has taught writing courses across Europe and mentors writers across several genres. Her previous publications include creative non-fiction on writing, Writing Down Deep, plus poetry collections and novels, most recently the poetry pamphlet, At world's end, begin, the novel smiling at grief in a house in a forest where life grows and her memoir, at the heart's farthest edge.
Jan writes at the intersection of story, poetry and herbalism. You can follow her weekly essays on her website Terrain, where she offers a community for those exploring writing and the animate world (Alchemical Gatherings), a monthly meeting to explore herbalism in daily life (Triskelewell) and runs the yearly writing community, Kith: for a different story.
Find out more at https://terrain.estate/