About the Author

Jade Angeles Fitton is a writer, journalist, and award-winning producer. Her work has appeared in the likes of the Guardian, Independent, Vogue, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, Literary Review and the BBC. Her poetry has been published in a number of magazines including The Moth.

Reviews

A dreamy, beautiful book about the consolations of solitude. In Hermit, Jade wanders a sunlit, windswept, delicately drawn landscape of loss and longing, and in doing so finds the stillness at the centre of herself. Hopeful and open-hearted.
*Cal Flyn, author of 'Islands of Abandonment'*

A compelling, engrossing memoir that beautifully encapsulates the human experience (both the misery and the magic) of suddenly finding yourself rebuilding life from the ground up, alone. I loved it.
*Emma Gannon*

Hermit is a beautiful written debut memoir drawing on the hermetic tradition that shows the power of being alone.
*Katherine May, author of Wintering*

A book of spellbinding brilliance by a writer of rare talent.
*Tristan Gooley*

This distinctive, alluring memoir, reminiscent of The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, relates how Fitton slowly learns to live alone and celebrate solitude in the natural world.
*The Bookseller*