Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside moving five hundred miles north

moving five hundred miles north of everything they know to the northern Scottish islands of Orkney

water voles

witch’s familiar

and the healing power of nurturing nature at your own back door

an extraordinary season in the forest

Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside moving five hundred miles north'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour . . . Bliss' STEPHEN FRY 'A writer whose pages you turn and then turn back immediately to re read, relish and get by heart' SUSAN HILL, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Ronald Blythe lived at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the SuffolkEssex border. His home,