<p><em>&ldquo;I began to notice how everything out there, in the wild, seemed to move. Oceans. Sharks. Wolves. Elephants. Rivers. Nothing stayed in the same place. I wanted to be like them too, and the only way to do this was to keep moving.&rdquo;</em><br />
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When Kate Mathieson finds herself with nothing to show except a well-adorned house and too many business suits, she makes the sudden decision to leave everything behind, and begins an elemental journey across Africa.<br />
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Weaving a personal tale of reflection, adventure and discovery, Kate beautifully details the lives we have marked for ourselves &ndash; school, university, careers, marriages, mortgages, children, school &ndash; and that other life, the one that calls to us from dreams, and out of books, that suggests the life we are living, may not be ours.<br />
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Finch Memoir Prize,&nbsp;<em>Ways to Come Home</em>&nbsp;is a powerful memoir about the need to know who we really are, and what it means to find our way back home.</p>