The 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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