I initially produced this book as a response to a serious illness, when it seemed to me that the only thing left when everything seemed lost was hope. The contents of the book are a quote from the poem by Emily Dickinson entitled ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’. I have found this to be both an inspirational and a consoling quotation, something to hold into in dark times, and others have also found it to be so. The structure is simple yet unusual in that there is only one page which opens out completely flat, enabling one to read the whole quotation with no page turning required. This is a folded book bound in Italian and British printed paper, with a watercolour paper insert that opens to an A4 sheet. The page is printed with the poem extract and a pattern of feathers