A Memoir About Love, Letting Go and a Very Small House
One woman's undertaking to build her very own tiny house, to live a simpler way of life and create a home, all while her relationship falls apart.
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Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer, Louise found herself staying in ever new and exotic locations, but while staying in a cabin in Norway, she had an epiphany about what she truly wanted for her life, ready to put down roots. With no prior building experience, Louise decided to build a tiny house with her partner, Max, which tested an already unstable relationship. Over the year and a half of planning and construction of her tiny house, Louise witnessed her new home coming together as her relationship was falling apart. Alongside her burgeoning construction skills, Louise learned about love, home, forgiveness and what we really need to be happy. This is an intensely personal story about searching for home and true love, two of life's most fundamental needs, risking everything, failing and finding ways to cope, and discovering that what we need isn't always what we thought we wanted.
‘Louise Southerden’s memoir is engaging, thought-provoking and disarmingly honest. As beautifully conceived and tenderly executed as the tiny home being created, it mixes construction with deconstruction, the personal with the political, and the loved with the lost. Her journey is a parable for us all.’
