When her mother passes away, Diane Meyer Lowman finds herself cast adrift. Her two sons are on the cusp of adulthood, navigating their burgeoning lives on their own. Diane is left with no one left to look after her and no one for her to look after either. Her mother's penultimate words stick with her though; "I wish you would start your life." As a grown woman, Diane feels she has a life. She's college educated, had a business career; she just swapped it for motherhood.
But her life so far has been spent fulfilling the dreams of others. So Diane returns to an old love, one that she had never been able to fully pursue before: Shakespeare. Packing up her life in Connecticut, she enrolls in an M.A. program at the Shakespeare Institute in the Bard's birthplace, Stratford Upon Avon. Alone in a foreign country, she discovers that even as an adult, there's so much more she can learn about herself.
The Undiscovered Country is a short memoir about following Shakespeare, but it's also an overview of her life and the events that shaped it. Lowman has a unique, yet relatable way of writing that can catch you unaware.
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