I didn't expect a book about a woman and a hare to stay with me the way this one has. It's a quiet, tender story of two beings learning to trust each other, with no demands on either side, and each life is richer for it. The writing is lovely. I was captivated by the author's close, patient observations of the hare, the kind of details you only notice when you've stopped long enough to really look. Woven through them are her reflections on how we live, where we belong in the natural world, and the responsibility that comes with the freedom to choose. I closed the book feeling a little more attentive to the wild things around me. A lovely, thought-provoking read.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A TIMES and SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2024 A WATERSTONES BEST NATURE WRITING BOOK OF 2024 A BOOKSHOP.ORG NATURAL HISTORY GIFT BOOK 2024
'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE 'A glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy' - KATHERINE RUNDELL 'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG
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Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your…
What a find for this hiker. I happened upon this book by chance, and I'm so glad I did. It's a quick read in the very best way. The pages practically turn themselves, but the story never feels thin. The style is engaging and keeps the pace brisk and the story feeling immediate and true. Every character is real and raw, the kind of people you can't stop thinking about after you've closed the book. Beautiful.
“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post
“A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters…
From a lonely island off the coast of Washington to the rough-and-tumble boomtown of Skagway, Alaska, in 1898, Eliza Waite blazes her own trail through every hardship imaginable. I was with her every step of the way. A woman of quiet hunger and fierce spirit, Eliza devours the news of the suffragists fighting for the vote, all while building a brave new life in a world run by men. She is clever, curious, and courageous, a heroine to cheer for from her tragic beginning to her triumphant end. I closed the book wishing I could have shared a cup of tea with her.
2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award After the tragic death of her husband and son on a remote island in Washington’s San Juan Islands, Eliza Waite joins the throng of miners, fortune hunters, business owners, con men, and prostitutes traveling north to the Klondike in the spring of 1898. When Eliza arrives in Skagway, Alaska, she has less than fifty dollars to her name and not a friend in the world—but with some savvy, and with the help of some unsavory characters, Eliza opens a successful bakery on Skagway’s main street and befriends a madam at a neighboring bordello. Occupying this…
Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she's dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back-but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person she believed herself to be.
When a brief romance ends in abrupt eviction, Catrine is left broke and unmoored, suspended between a city that won't release her and a past she refuses to reclaim. An unlikely friendship with a widowed Sorbonne professor leads to an impulsive road trip to Normandy and everything begins to unravel. What follows is not the Paris she expected, but something more unsettling-and more honest.
Is the City of Light rescuing her, haunting her, or revealing something she's been too afraid to see?
