The Wild Silence, by Rayner Winn (Michael Joseph 2020)

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This is the sequel to her previous The Salt Path, in which Rayner and her husband Moth, finding themselves homeless and with Moth's terminal diagnosis, walk the 630 miles of the South West Coast Path around the coast of England. Readers were desperate to know what happened next. This book describes how Moth, seemingly revitalised by nature, was reluctant to return to a four walls normality. Someone who read the first book offers them an opportunity to rewild a beautiful farm in the Cornish hinterland, and this becomes a new path for them. Both books are truly life-affirming, beautifully written, evocative and luminous, and prove the benefits of immersion in the natural world.