A review by lory_enterenchanted
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

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4.0

Another wonderful book from Winn, who follows up The Salt Path with a book that covers how that book came to be written and published, and what came next for her and her husband, Moth. Starting with the harrowing death of her mother, and in flashback memories describing more about her childhood and upbringing on a farm, where her parents didn't understand her connection to wild things nor her love for Moth, it fills out the picture and helps to explain some of the things that remained a bit mysterious in TSP. Especially moving was to learn how she wanted to be a writer when young, then put that dream away -- only to have it fulfilled in this unexpected way. Writers who fear it's too late to follow their dream should take note.

While not as striking a journey as the first book -- the last section covers a trip to Iceland that was dramatic, but only several days long -- it is also a beautiful musing on nature, love, loss, and how to bring a broken world back into wholeness.