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The incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home.

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 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 connection to nature, and how vital it is for us all.

Story Locale: Cornwall

Note biographique

Since travelling the South West Coastal Path, Raynor Winn has become a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. Her first book, The Salt Path, was a Sunday Times bestseller, NPR Concierge Best Book of 2019, and shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Award. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Moth.

Fonctionnalité

THE HEALING POWER OF NATURE: There is a large readership for books about the transformative and healing power of being in the outdoors and human connection to nature as demonstrated books like Wild, H is for Hawk, Robert Macfarlane's work, and the steady backlist sales of Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust.

FINDING HOPE IN HARD TIMES: Ultimately, Raynor's writing is about finding hope when it feels like all is lost, finding your place in the world, and about the joys of a loving, supportive partnership. The Wild Silence is a transporting and life affirming read, and will surely be a book readers can turn to as a source of inspiration.

SUCCESS OF THE SALT PATH: Raynor's first book was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, now selling over 400,000 copies there.It continues to resonate among readers here, where it received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal and Entertainment Weekly, among others. The Salt Path was an NPR Concierge Best Book of 2019 and shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award.

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