Mayer Books
Presents HideAways
An extraordinary collection of stories, poems, art and photographs of women’s secret childhood places and the safety, creativity, and freedom found there and how these spaces remain a profound part of who they are today.
HideAways reveals aspects of women’s lives that are rarely shared: what we did in furtive time alone as girls. Why we needed to hide and the shape of the places we fit inside. What we found beautiful and comforting there and how our thoughts, formed in privacy, grew in strength.
The Praise
“To read HideAways is to be transported both to one’s own childhood and into the childhoods of so many extraordinary artists. Like childhood itself, this is a book that both whispers and shouts; it is at once tender and fierce, and it sings with love. Turn the pages, and then look up and see the world anew.”
~ Marianne Levy, UK Author and essayist,
The Times, The Independent, and The Guardian
“HideAways is a delightful account of the ingenuity of the young in finding solitary “safe places” — be they amidst the trees and fields and streams of nature or through imagination… A testimony to the innovation of the young, this is also a beautiful book, filled with enchanting artwork and lovely poetry.”
Linda Cashdan, Veteran journalist, Voice of America
“HideAways, in its combination of texts and images, touches upon all senses. Don’t be surprised if, as you turn the pages, you find yourself tasting green, seeing the cries of ravens, hearing plants photosynthesize, touching a fiery sunset, and smelling the hushed darkness of a mid-winter night.”
Julie Mackaman, Writer
The Stories
