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After Kiran loses her mother,she escapes to the Welsh countryside - to allow herself to grieve away from turbulent city life in London,to leave her toxic family behind,and to find solace in the purity of the natural world.
She openly wonders,
'What's a brown city girl like me doing in the Welsh countryside'
But she quickly discovers a sense of belonging in the small,close-knit community she finds there; her neighbour Sarah,who teaches her how to sledge when the winter snow arrives; Jane,a 70-year-old woman who lives at the top of a mountain with three dogs and four alpacas with an inspiring attitude for life; and Wilf,the farmer who eats the same supper every day,and taught Kiran that the cuckoo arrives in April and leaves in July.
I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender,philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life,the value of solitariness,and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth. This is a reflective book about finding friendship in the most unexpected places -and what nature and a small community in the Welsh Valleys can teach us about life.
Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupISBN: 9781856755160Number of pages: 320Dimensions: 222 x 138 mm
I Can Hear the Cuckoo: Life in the Wilds of Wales
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An empowering meditation on grief,solitude,community and the solace of nature,I Can Hear the Cuckoo chronicles the author's life after a decision to swap her London life to one in the Welsh Valleys.
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