Ring Salt Finding home & hope on Wild Coast Ireland

On her sons first birthday, Betsy Cornwell fled her home, checking into a hotel under a false name so her husband couldnt find them. In the uncertain months that followed, her fierce determination to give her child what she never had a safe and stable home saved them. In Ring of Salt, Betsy traces her journey from that desperate moment to Irelands windswept west coast, where the Atlantic Ocean crashes against ancient cliffs. There, nestled beside a quiet lake in the wilds of Connemara, she discovers a longabandoned knitting factory forgotten, but full of possibility. She sets out to restore it into a sanctuary for herself and her son and, eventually, a creative refuge for single mothers. As she renovates the crumbling house and fights to keep custody of her son, Betsy begins to rebuild something more a sense of belonging. In the cool mists of the countryside, and with the help of fellow survivors and an unexpected community, she pieces together a new kind of family. Mixing Maids gripping portrait of single motherhood with Winterings wild, romantic sense of place, this is a powerful memoir of survival, new beginnings, and the quiet, everyday magic of finding home on one of the worlds most storied and soulstirring coastlines. | Betsy Cornwell Ring of Salt: Finding home & hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland