God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

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'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY'A message of beauty and optimism.' JOANNA LUMLEY'Stunningly beautiful, immensely sad, immensely uplifting.' GEORGE MONBIOT'Extraordinarily powerful and moving... a book of universal wisdom.' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'Beautiful and deeply moving.' ISABELLA TREE'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMES'Unfathomable tragedy chronicled with profound love and compassion.' RICHARD E. GRANT'Emotive, raw and captivating.' BENEDICT MACDONALD-Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm.In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris's death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw himself into searching for some ongoing trace of his beloved child, exploring ideas that until then had seemed too abstract to mean much to him. Missing his daughter terribly and struggling to imagine how he would face the rest of his life in the shadow of this loss, Ben found solace in nature, the object of a lifelong fascination. As Ben set about rewilding his farm, nature became a vital source of meaning and hope. This book is the story of a year of soul-searching that followed a terrible loss. In an instant, Ben's world had turned dark. Yet, unbelievably to him, the seasons kept on turning, and as he immersed himself in the dramatic restoration of nature in the place where it happened, he found healing. In God is an Octopus, Ben tells a powerful, immersive and inspiring story of finding comfort and strength in nature after suffering loss and despair.
Copyright:
1989

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781399408349
Related ISBNs:
9781399408356
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
the Estate of Raymond Carver
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Animals, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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