Coming Ashore: A Memoir

Written by Catherine Gildiner

Narrated by Nathalie Toriel

Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner’s memoir series.

Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy whisks through seven years and three countries. Whether reciting verse in the classrooms of the University of Oxford, arranging a date with Jimi Hendrix, teaching inner-city kids literature, rooming with a major drug dealer, falling in love, or working in a psychiatric hospital, Cathy determinedly blazes her own trail through all the passion and uncertainty that comes with the cusp of adulthood.

Coming Ashore transports readers to a fascinating era populated by lively characters, but most memorable of all is the singular Cathy McClure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ECW
• Release date: Jan 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781770909670

Catherine Gildiner

CATHERINE GILDINER was a clinical psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. Her best-selling memoir Too Close to The Falls was published to international acclaim. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Coming Ashore

[Maria Grzywacz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I am HEAD OVER HEELS in love with Catherine Gildner's stories and her narration. She is witty, intelligent, open and very descriptive. The reader's never lost in the narration, the stories make sense and are very capturing. It's a great book "standalone" but also as a follow-up to "Good Morning, Monster" Gildiner's book in which she describes some of the moste resilient patients she had encountered in her practice.
I laughed with Gildiner, I held my breath with her, I let her inspire and surprise me. Great, engaging read!