THE WILD LIFE

The Wild Life is John Lewis Stempel s account of twelve months eating only food shot caught or foraged from the fields hedges and brooks of his forty acre farm Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture Could it even be done We witness the season by season drama as the author survives on Nature s larder trains Edith a reluctant gundog and conjures new recipes And above all we see him get closer to Nature Because after all you re never closer to Nature than when you re trying to kill it or pick it Lyrical observant and mordantly funny The Wild Life is an extraordinary celebration of our natural heritage and a testament to the importance of getting back to one s roots spiritually and practically