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278 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
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'Horatio Clare sucks thick honey from his past. A tender, eloquent book about love, the power of the land and the price to paid for living out one s dreams'
(Sarah Dunant )'The joy in Running for the Hills lies in its seemingly effortless richness and precision.... It is a prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes - or Wordsworth. ... If this heartening, raw, tender, radiant first book has a lesson,... it is that women will manage better than men, and that their closer bond with nature may be our redemption.'
(John Carey, Sunday Times )'Touching, funny and extremely well-written'
(Telegraph )Enchanting ... magical ... so beautifully written that you almost hold your breath'
(Daily Mail )'Beautifully written memoir... As Clare's own memory kicks in, the book evolves into a lyrical recollection of a happy childhood, and a loving testimony to his mother, written with a sure-footed delicacy that announces the arrival of a major talent'
(Marie Clare )It is the prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes or Wordsworth
(The Sunday Times )'This charming book...outlines the process of scarification with an impressive honesty and delicacy' - Rebecca Loncraine
(Independent )A salutary memoir about his life on a remote Welsh hill-farm
(Daily Mail )A very charming and beautiful book which gets better and better with each turn of the page.
(Accent )The classic Great Escape . . . strikingly told
(Matthew Bell, TLS )An assured and compelling first book ... A moving exploration of the slow triumph of adversity over optimism
(Rose Tremain, The Sunday Telegraph ) --variousBook Description
'Do you want to spend your whole life on the tube? Wouldn't you rather live somewhere wild and beautiful and free?'
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0719565383
- ISBN 13 9780719565380
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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