Nature Cure

A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir…The account of how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living…Mabey’s particular vision, informed by a lifetime’s reading and observation, is ultimately optimistic. It is also what makes his voice so appealing amid all the froth and flam of the eco-debate – Philip Marsden * Sunday Times *
A book of which only he could have written a single page…marvellously observed, deeply felt from sentence to sentence. The writing is exquisite – David Sexton, * Evening Standard *
Subtle, devotional, poetic * Observer *
Rich, invigorating and deeply restorative * Irish Times *
Nature Cure moves between the nervous breakdown of an individual and the madness of the modern world with a prescience akin to that of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land – Jonathan Bate * Guardian *
Mabey is a radical, inheritor of an old English tradition…The core of the book is his exploration of his new landscape. It feels a privilege to share it, watching him unpick the layers of watery Norfolk, with dazzling skill and the warmest of hearts, as his troubled mind heals – Michael McCarthy * Independent *
Written in the radiant, tingle-making prose that has earned Mabey literary prizes and a multitude of fans… both a wake-up call and an example of how the love of nature can electrify and heal the imagination. – Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
An inspiring book – Nicholas Bagnall * Sunday Telegraph *
Britain’s greatest living nature writer * The Times *

Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White- a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.

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