On the Red Hill

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020
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''A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.''Evening Standard, ''Books of the Year''

''A moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary, ambitious... its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.'' Simon Callow, Guardian

''A marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.'' Simon Jenkins

''There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice, this is the most necessary medicine: the tenderness of reality and the living, elemental, world.'' Jay Griffiths
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A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature.

In 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur we