The Wildness

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Y foment y dechreuodd y tir dorri, torrodd hi'n rhydd o'r diwedd. Nofel eco-hanesyddol am gariad, tir a gwrthwynebiad. Wedi'i gosod yn Lloegr cyn-ddiwydiannol yr 18fed ganrif, pan oedd amgáu tir yn dadwreiddio cymunedau gwledig, a hadau argyfyngau ecolegol heddiw yn cael eu hau.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The moment the land began to break, she finally broke free. An eco-historical novel of love, land and resistance. Set in 18th-century pre-industrial England, when land enclosures uprooted rural communities, and the seeds of today's ecological crises were being sown.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Anne Keer lives on a hill in rural Mid Wales where nature and the land have shaped her ideas about the natural world. Previously she worked as a journalist and in television documentary and drama. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University and tries to give nature a bit of space on the land she and her partner look after. The Wildness is her first novel.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

‘Without a doubt there had been wildness in me then.’ As the Age of Enlightenment dawns, Hannah Sentance finds herself increasingly disturbed by her husband Walter’s unyielding desire to transform the land around their estate into an elite Gentleman’s Park. At the heart of the conflict stands an ancient oak tree – a lightning rod for opposing forces: modern ‘progress’ and reverence for the natural world. As competing ideas on nature collide, reshaping land and lives, Hannah probes both, and Walter’s quest for dominion over land and status leaves her questioning how far she will go to protect the living world she loves. A symbol of resistance, wildness and a young woman’s love affair with nature, the tree embodies Hannah’s struggle for a way of being, of belonging and of recognising that nature is not something to be conquered. ‘Her pitch-perfect historical voice interacts with the fresh felt reality of nature revealing something we all need to understand today. Brilliant.’ Ruth Padel ‘A spellbinding read.’ Jay Griffiths • Set in the 18th-century, when land enclosures uprooted rural communities, and the seeds of today’s ecological crises were being sown. • Bookclub literary fiction that will appeal to nature writing fans, historical fiction readers and readers of classic period fiction who would enjoy their characters encountering an ecological twist. • Perfect for readers of Melissa Harrison’s All Among the Barley, Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent and Richard Powers’ The Overstory.