The contrast between the Cape Wrath Trail and the West Highland Way couldn’t have been more profound. The Cape Wrath Trail is what it says in the guidebook: remote and isolated. It is a walk through the wilderness where you might go for days without seeing anyone. Walking the 320-kilometre Cape Wrath Trail through the north of Scotland looked like an achievable undertaking for Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, who at the time was suffering from a degenerative illness. The plans for the jaunt, after all, had been laid out during a warm Cornish spring, when the hardships and perils of what’s considered to be one of Britain’s most challenging long-distance walks appeared remote.

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An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Ashanti wows in a racy bodysuit as she coordinates costumes with beau Nelly at his Halloween 'G.I. Moe' birthday celebration Readers found this to be heartening and heartfelt. It’s a full throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all of its fury, glory, and impermanence. Fans of the novel delighted in Raynor’s account of falling in love with Moth. Her writing once again beautifully evokes the natural world, whether she’s describing a doe in an orchard or her innermost conflicted feelings. This is the perfect ‘what happened next’ memoir which gives closure to readers of Winn’s first book. We started the walk in a state of despair. We’d lost everything we’d spent two decades creating and Moth was struggling even to put his coat on without help. But we walked, along a relentless undulating path, burnt by the sun and drenched by the rain, just putting one foot in front of the other until nearly 200 miles had passed.

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The evening grows darker as the thrush pokes at the last crust of frozen bread, before flying up into the hedge to roost. Those nights living wild on the headlands taught me that we are as vulnerable to changes in our climate as the thrush in the hedgerow, just as exposed to the heat of last summer and the ice of this winter.

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This is the third book in a series, and while the reader may benefit from reading the first two novels, as I intend to do, this book is enjoyable on its own as well.