Walking Distance Paperback by Lizzy Stewart

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A hybrid prose and comics-format essay on the experience of being a woman out walking.

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.