On the Red Hill : Where Four Lives Fell Into Place

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 and SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020, this multilayered memoir by Mike Parker, titled "On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place," is a poignant exploration of love, acceptance, finding home, and the restorative power of nature. Praised as "a moving story of love, tradition and landscape" by the Evening Standard, and hailed as "a moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary, ambitious... its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches" by Simon Callow in The Guardian, this lyrical and profoundly cultured book takes readers on a journey through the tranquil landscapes of rural Wales.

In 2006, Parker and his partner Peredur witnessed the civil partnership of their friends Reg and George in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. Years later, when Reg and George passed away within weeks of each other, they unexpectedly left their home – a whitewashed "house from the children's stories" nestled deep within the hills – to Parker and Peredur. "On the Red Hill" chronicles the story of Rhiw Goch, "the Red Hill," its inhabitants, and the remarkable rural community that embraced them, celebrating the cyclical nature of the changing seasons, ever-evolving landscapes, and the family found in the most unlikely of places.

Highly commended by the judging panel for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, this uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the heart of Wales has been hailed as "a marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise" by Simon Jenkins, and "a delightful book about beauty, joy, love and home... to be celebrated and read" by Sara Maitland. Tom Bullough describes it as "a great queer rural triumph of a book - wonderfully passionate, funny and insightful. It overflows with love," while Jay Griffiths praises it as "the most necessary medicine: the tenderness of reality and the living, elemental, world."

Product Information:

Book ISBN:	9781786090492
Book Author:	Mike Parker
Book Format:	Paperback / softback
Book Imprint:	Windmill Books
Book Publisher:	Cornerstone
Book Dimensions:	130 x 196 x 27 cm
Book Publication Date:	2020-06-02
Book Pagination:	416 pages
Book Weight:	332g