Where else can you find a collection of such eclectic, inspiring and noble women? Catherine Ann Lombard has woven together reflections on some of the most remarkable unsung heroines - an Italian hermit, Dutch Jewish writer, British mystics, and a Japanese tea ceremony master. You will join Italian village grandmothers and granddaughters as they make gnocchi together, enter the world of Nigerian asylum seekers, and contemplate the challenges of being both mother and mothered. This small, but powerful account unveils all that it means to be "A Free and Wild Creature.