Deeper Into the Wood: a year in the life of an amateur naturalist, by the author of critically acclaimed 'A Wood of One's Own'

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This, in turn, led to her bestselling memoir, A Wood of One’s Own, detailing the realisation of her dream. The nuances of the seasons are beautifully embroidered within Ruth’s gentle narrative, which is heartfelt in its honesty and description. She also enhances the chronicle of the year with a number of divergences in each chapter into a number of fascinating vignettes on local history, geology, and culture of the area of the wood. What also helps to bring the story to life is the compendium of individuals experts and artisans that embellish the story with interesting facts and information. Accompanied throughout by the author’s evocative hand-drawn illustrations, Deeper into the Wood is a lyrical and inspiring story with a strong environmental message.

I read this book at a time when I needed a gentle escape, words that soothed and didn’t jar. It is the story of Ruth Pavey’s journey of finding some land to turn into a woodland of her own. I enjoyed reading about the wildlife in and around the wood. From hares to rabbits, all manor of birds and even the sheep employed to work their magic in the wood. At times it is heart wrenching to read the disappearance of wildlife and plants. Ruth raises the serious issues we are facing with climate change and the impact we humans are having on nature and wildlife. Grace Dent's 'gaunt' appearances on I'm A Celeb led friends to worry about star's health as they now 'just want her to get home' after she quit show Olivia Culpo models a long white dress as she heads to bridal shops in Beverly Hills before her wedding to NFL star Christian McCaffreyGayle King, 68, shows off her curves as she recreates her niece's swimsuit photos in hilarious annual tradition during their Mexican vacation

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean show off their incredible skating skills as Winter Olympics winners rehearse aheadof Dancing On Ice Netflix deliberately dropped its trailer for Harry and Meghan's series on same day as Prince William's Earthshot Prize, Omid Scobie claims Pavey aims to treat this landscape holistically: using sheep to retain open areas instead of mowing the grass, and weighing up the benefits of the non-native species she has planted. She knows her efforts can only achieve so much; the pesticides standard to industrial-scale farming may still be reaching her trees on the wind, though she doesn’t apply them herself. “One sad aspect of worrying about the state of the natural world is that everything starts to look wrong,” she admits. Starting in that year’s abnormally warm January, it was easy for her to assume that the seasons can no longer be relied on. I recommend this book to anyone interested in nature memoirs, natural history, or books about country life. The book has a strong environmental message and emerged from Ruth noticing how the species in her own little wood were dwindling and looking at what she could do about it. Ruth Pavey

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There is a certain amount of guilt expressed throughout the book; Pavey worries about planting non native trees, but explains how difficult it is to assess what varieties were truly to be found in Britain and when. This is a comprehensive book of Pavey’s thoughts on her wood. It is written to celebrate and commemorate Pavey’s ownership of the wood, her concerns about its present and future, and her determination to do the right thing. It relates the problems of the wood to wider climate change issues as well as the way the various groups of animals, birds and insects are affected. I was pleased to have the opportunity to read and view this carefully written book. The coup de grace, however, was the shameful sentence mentioned in almost every review, in which she says that a Caribbean girl must like a large building because her DNA fondly remembers the days when her people lived on slave plantations just like that. That is just so wrong on so many levels, and I find it hard to believe that this could be published so recently, and even be nominated for the Wainwright Prize. Having survived, and even enjoyed, forty plus years of teaching in Inner London, she still lives there, surrounded by plants, books, friends, a cello and three cats, while making frequent trips to her wood in Somerset. In 1999 Ruth Pavey bought her tiny patch of Somerset and it has been a place of refuge for her. It was scrubland initially, and she has replanted it and knows almost every tree in there. This book is a year in the life of her woodland. Even though it is a tiny oasis in the modern factory-farmed countryside until recently it had harboured a wide variety of life. But one day she notices that there are not as many rabbits around as there used to be, in fact, she can’t remember when she saw the last one. Olivia Colman looks startlingly different as conniving latex-clad oil exec 'Oblivia Coalmine' in Richard Curtis's eco-advert