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WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Enchanting' Telegraph
'Miraculous' Isabella Tree
'Exquisite' FT

From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, an unforgettable story of friendship, redemption and a life-changing voyage of discovery on a remote Norwegian island

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Enjoyable although the setting didn't come alive quite as successfully as some of Rebanks' writing about the English countryside. Some of the reason was perhaps that he drops in the names of flowers without mentioning much about them so the botanically ignorant (like me) couldn't picture them against the landscape. I also think there should have been either more or less about his relationship problems back home. I would have been happy with less!
All that said, it is an impressive record of a dwindling Norwegian lifestyle, and of the astonishing Anna and I could feel the storms and wild…

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