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Tom decides to get his voice back. 139 pgs | Paperback | Jeff Farnham Material: Recycled sterling silver or 24ct hard gold plated recycled silver (gold vermeil) Author: Goldsmith, Ben, Binding: Hardback, Imprint: Bloomsbury Wildlife, Series: N/A, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Published: 11/05/2023, Pagination: 256 pages, Classification: Somerset, Country of Publication: United Kingdom Transform Your Space, Embrace Your Style However, Tom's own sense of relief soon turns to despair. If the octopus is your spirit animal, you are intelligent, mysterious, and easily able to hide and blend in your surroundings from your enemies.
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Karla_bookishlife
Ben Goldsmith and Kate Rothschild, from famed banking and financial families, lost their first child, daughter Iris, in an accident at Cannwood farm. He searches for answers and / or traces of Iris all around. It is also obvious that Ben comes from a background of immense privilege and finances are no object in his pursuit for truth and enlightenment.
Zoe Ley
any closer to the truth of what comes next or any closer to his daughter. A beautiful and emotional search for meaning and traces of a dearly departed child. Perhaps, just perhaps, God is indeed an Octopus - omnipresent through various tentacles of our interconnected world.
Smyth
Whilst many suffered hardships in the pandemic, he enjoyed a commune of sorts on his land and a bubble of time to heal. The majority of the book focuses on his rewilding plans and restoring as many species back into the natural environs as a means of spiritual and physical healing.
He also explores different religions, rituals, and rites to see if that brings him. His journey through that grief, whilst buffeted by financial means, is still a journey many of us experiencing loss, can understand- the questioning of where our loved ones have gone and whether we will see them again and trying to maintain a sort of connection to them is all very real. It almost becomes a manifesto of types.
This chasm between his journey and the ordinary reader is quite wide at times, but also at the heart of the story is the loss of a beloved child, and that grief is universal. No amount of money can change that loss. What an extraordinary epitaph for the altogether magical Iris.
This is one of the most moving and at the same time uplifting books I have ever read. Whilst most of us do not have acres of land to rewild, we do have a little slice of nature around us that is free to enjoy. Ben, a lifelong advocate of nature, turns to its beauty and healing powers to help his journey through grief. Never before have I felt the need to write a review but I felt compelled to and urge everyone to read it.
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