EAN: 9780241471470

THE SWIMMER - PATRICK BARKHAM GEBUNDEN

BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVERThe definitive biography of beloved
author  Roger Deakin Roger Deakin  author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood  was a man of
unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book  Roger
was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man  seller of stripped pine
furniture on the Portobello Road  cider-maker  teacher  environmentalist  music promoter  and
filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk  the
heartland which he shared with a host of visitors  both animal and human  and wrote about - as
he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention  intimacy  precision and poetry. Roger
Deakin was unique  and so too is this joyful work of creative biography  told primarily in the
words of the subject himself  with support from a chorus of friends  family  colleagues  lovers
and neighbours. Delving deep into Roger Deakin's library of words  Patrick Barkham draws from
notebooks  diaries  letters  recordings  published work and early drafts  to conjure his voice
back to glorious life in these pages. To read this book is to listen in to a dream conversation
between a writer and those who knew him intimately.

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