A Shell in Time

Lida Cardozo Kindersley, who runs the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, has published a new book, A Shell in Time, with her friend Els Bottema.

A Shell in Time tells the story of Lida and her best friend Els growing up in Holland and the very different paths they took until they were reunited as adults, a renewed friendship the silver lining under the cloud of breast cancer. The story follows the building of the shell line and the rebuilding of their lives. 

This is the memoir of two artists who first met as schoolgirls in Delft. Their paths converged and diverged as they grew up and followed their individual vocations, as ceramicist and letter cutter. What brings them back in touch is the coincidence of cancer: that both are diagnosed in the same year, but are then able to support each other through the trials of chemo treatment. They choose to convalesce on the bleak coast of Suffolk, and there create a natural artwork which has moved and motivated visitors from across the world: the shell line of Shingle Street.

‘The story of the Shingle Street shell line has rung in my mind with the force of a minor modern myth’
Robert Macfarlane