A life-affirming novel of love loss and letting go - for readers of ELEANOR OLIPHANT THE
TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP and WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT On her forty-seventh birthday Sydney
Smith stands on a rooftop and prepares to jump Sydney is a cartoonist and freerunner Feet
constantly twitching always teetering on the edge of life she's never come to terms with the
event that ripped her family apart when she was ten years old And so on a birthday that she
doesn't want to celebrate she returns alone to St Ives to face up to her guilt and grief It's
a trip that turns out to be life-changing - and not only for herself DO NOT FEED THE BEAR is a
book about lives not yet lived about the kindness of others and about how when our worlds
stop we find a way to keep on moving
