Commentary/review

A strong contender for the Best Book of the Year 2026 on this blog. Exciting, eye-opening, perfectly balanced and feeling quite real. Truth pokes out from the unlikely combination of subjects: the life-threatening challenges and injuries, the freedom to recover, the ghost encounters, the strange events. The wine making, the wood cutting, the fishing. The wildlife. The unhurried advice. The occasional piece of poetry. It is all so well put together one would never manage to fake it.

The book can be read many times, containing layers upon layers of uncommon phrases, approaches and comparisons. The Author can also be encountered in the award-winning 2022 documentary titled “The Hermit of Treig”.

The narrator did a good job in the audiobook, catering to a wide audience.

Beautiful cover, with a genuinely lovable photo and a Western-style font. The colours outside my window are identical now, with Autumn now in full swing.

Cover photo by Connor Mollison on Unsplash