Tender Maps

In Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place, Alice Maddicott asks: What do our physical surroundings truly mean for us? What is atmosphere, and why does it matter?

Tender Maps charts the feelings of place, its associations, and - in times of national borders and migration, climate crisis and an increasing disconnect from the lived environment - the need to reaffirm that emotion of place.

Combining literature (early map-making, books, land art, children's fables) and memoir (reflections on Alice's childhood home, being made homeless during the pandemic, finding a permanent home in the West Country), Tender Maps cuts to the heart of what the places we exist in meanfor all of us: more than as simply a passive background to our being they are something emotional, political and vital in our lives.