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‘Gosia Buzzanca’s memoir is a deceptively simple account of becoming a writer. You can taste and smell her story of being brought up in Poland and moving to the UK. Everyday details flash into the occasional brilliant metaphor in this warm and vibrant story of moving into adult family life and art. Delightful.’Gwyneth Lewis
‘There She Goes, My Beautiful World takes you into two vibrantly textured worlds, Poznań, Poland and Barry, Wales, to relate the story of a girl who’s lived to tell it with such vitality it immediately feels like the long breathless account of a close friend, hair-raising at times, always warm and strangely enchanting.’Rachel Trezise
‘Gosia is a writer of rare talent and all that spark, heart and authenticity runs right through this book like a stick of rock.’Kerry Hudson
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
From Poznan to the summit of Yr Wyddfa, Gosia Buzzanca takes us on a quest to find her way back to herself.
A story of migration and the quest for home, or homes, Gosia Buzzanca’s biography takes us on a journey from Poland to South Wales, ending up at the summit of Wales’s highest peak. From her childhood in rural Poland, her early career as a writer, to university in the UK, and motherhood in south Wales, to the blossoming of her writing life in Wales, There She Goes visits on themes of sexual abuse, migration, neurodiversity, motherhood, friendship and mental health. Buzzanca’s distinctive voice moves between the second and third person perspectives, until a fateful week in Tŷ Newydd, a writing centre in north Wales, and an impulsive decision to climb Yr Wyddfa leads her finally to land on her first-person perspective, and ownership of the unexpected, twirling, sometimes turbulent narrative of her own story.
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University of Wales Press ()
Calon (23/10/2025)
ISBN 9781837600151
176pp
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University of Wales Press ()
Natalie.Williams@press.wales.ac.uk
Reviews
‘Gosia Buzzanca’s memoir is a deceptively simple account of becoming a writer. You can taste and smell her story of being brought up in Poland and moving to the UK. Everyday details flash into the occasional brilliant metaphor in this warm and vibrant story of moving into adult family life and art. Delightful.’
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