Tangled Roots, Maria Turtschaninoff

Tangled Roots, Maria TurtschaninoffNew Hardback An award winning epic tale set in the magical Finnish wilderness According to rumour, the people of Nevabacka had a hint of magic in their blood, because one of their ancestors had lain with a woman of the forest folk An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine,

listening and breathing in the nature around her

The Lake District

living among them for a season as he chronicles their incredible highs and terrifying lows

Aeroplanes droning invisible

it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England

covering landscapes from upland moorland and river valleys of the Tees to farmland and coastal cliffs of the Durham Heritage Coast

his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Francisco at the height of revolutionary foment

Yet the ‘solution’ cannot possibly lie in self-care

but what can be done about it

The Water Margin)

But most importantly

Nothing But The Truth charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar