TURNING

A National Post 99 Best Books of 2017 selection and one of Die Zeit’s Best Books of the Year. Named a Notable Book by the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards and longlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors.

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UK paperback edition | Canadian trade paperback edition | US/Canada paperback | German edition

Praise for Turning:
“A sublime, philosophical slipping into the deep. Her book, Turning, is filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories” — Philip Hoare, New Statesman

“Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin seen through the prism of its lakes; the story of a broken and healing heart; a contemplation of identity; a coming-of-age story” — Katharine Norbury, Observer

“Bold and brave, she approaches her watery pilgrimage with a minimum amount of fuss. She doesn't, for instance, allow the ice on Brandenburg's lakes to get in her way, but takes a hammer to it . . . Lee writes like a siren, her silken prose blending with softly worn scholarship to enchanting effect. I challenge anyone to write more compellingly about Slavic suffixes or the formation of ice.” — Literary Review