For a long time, I thought meaningful moments would announce themselves.

That I’d recognise them as they happened.

Instead, they arrived quietly.

In the warmth of sun on a kitchen floor.

In lawn daisies pushing through the grass.

In rain against the window.

In the shape of bathroom tiles.

In moments that would have been easy to miss if I’d been looking somewhere else.

The Shape of Ordinary Things is a collection of 37 short reflections about paying attention.

Not because every ordinary moment has to become profound.

But because sometimes, when we slow down enough to really notice, we realise life has been speaking to us all along.

This is a gentle book to leave beside your bed.

To read one piece at a time.

To return to whenever life feels noisy, rushed or overwhelming.

A reminder that wonder rarely arrives in grand gestures.

More often, it’s waiting in the ordinary things we almost walked past.

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Australia

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• Foyles (UK)

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• Available through major booksellers worldwide.

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