Running for the Hills - Hardcover

'Horatio Clare sucks thick honey from his past. A tender, eloquent book about love, the power of the land and the price to paid for living out one s dreams'

'The joy in Running for the Hills lies in its seemingly effortless richness and precision.... It is a prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes - or Wordsworth. ... If this heartening, raw, tender, radiant first book has a lesson,... it is that women will manage better than men, and that their closer bond with nature may be our redemption.'

'Touching, funny and extremely well-written'

Enchanting ... magical ... so beautifully written that you almost hold your breath'  

'Beautifully written memoir... As Clare's own memory kicks in, the book evolves into a lyrical recollection of a happy childhood, and a loving testimony to his mother, written with a sure-footed delicacy that announces the arrival of a major talent'

It is the prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes or Wordsworth

'This charming book...outlines the process of scarification with an impressive honesty and delicacy' - Rebecca Loncraine

A salutary memoir about his life on a remote Welsh hill-farm

A very charming and beautiful book which gets better and better with each turn of the page.

The classic Great Escape . . . strikingly told

An assured and compelling first book ... A moving exploration of the slow triumph of adversity over optimism

'Do you want to spend your whole life on the tube? Wouldn't you rather live somewhere wild and beautiful and free?'