Overview

Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and herself-gaining agency by being in control of her own direction speed and momentum. Walking is both an internal and external experience. It's a time for self-reflection, for observing others and for imagining how we appear to them. What is expected of a person of our age, sex, and race, and how should that influence what we do and how we feel about ourselves? A poignant and contemporary meditation on gender politics, social commentary, and eighties movies, all interlaced with shards of autobiography and illustrated with a beautiful series of sequential and non-sequential watercolour images.

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9781910395813

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Reviews

"""Walking Distance is a quiet exploration of Stewart's mind that makes me realize how much I take a simple thing as going for a walk for granted."" -- Women Write About Comics ""An introspective, intriguing graphic novel that takes walking as a simple thing but crafts a memoir that's both deeply personal and yet wonderfully universal. A gloriously wonderful book."" -- Comicon.com ""She knows when to discuss, debate and dissect at length, and when to let a sudden sidestep into silent visual metaphor convey the nuance of a moment on an entirely different emotional level. It underlines once again what a truly remarkable communicator Lizzy Stewart is."" -- Broken Frontier"

Author Information

Lizzy Stewart is an author and illustrator from Plymouth who currently lives in London. She won a Waterstones Prize for her debut picture-book There’s a Tiger in the Garden and has worked on numerous other books for children. For adults her work includes the short story collection It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be, an acclaimed graphic novel Alison and Lights, Planets, People!, a collaboration with writer Molly Naylor.

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