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The Wild Silence

byRaynor Winn

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Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home.

Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but against all medical odds, he seems revitalised in nature. Together on the wild coastal path, with their feet firmly rooted outdoors, they discover that anything is possible.

Now life beyond the Salt Path awaits and they come back to four walls, but the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything.

A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows, becomes their saving grace and their new path to follow.

The Wild Silence is a story of hope triumphing over despair, of lifelong love prevailing over everything. It is a luminous account of the human spirit's instinctive connection to nature, and how vital it is for us all.

Heartening and comforting . . . The nature writing is beautiful and it is a thrill to read. You feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it

The Times

About Raynor Winn

RAYNOR WINN is the internationally bestselling author of The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines. Her books have sold over 2 million copies in English and have been translated into over 25 languages. The Salt Path won the Royal Society of Literature's inaugural Christopher Bland Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. The Wild Silence was also shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. In 2024, the Sunday Times listed The Salt Path as one of the top 100 books of the past 50 years. It has now been adapted into a major film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs and screened in cinemas in the UK and overseas.

Raynor is a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and our relationship to the land. She lives in Cornwall with husband Moth. On Winter Hill is her fourth book.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241401477
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 207g
  • Price: £10.99
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