"Join two women writers as they explore the historical underpinnings of our modern-day disconnect between the human and the natural world – and how it might be healed.
     Anne Keer’s new eco-historical novel, The Wildness, is set in the late 18th century at a time when a materialist view of the natural world – as well as the affluent gentry — were gaining ground.
     A few centuries later, a field in South West England is taken back into common ownership where well-known nature writer Anita Roy and her local volunteer group embark on an ambitious plan to grow a forest garden at the heart of their community.
     Finding ways to rebalance our relationship with nature will be central to their discussion.
     Anita Roy’s books include A Year in Kingcombe: The Wildflower Meadows of Dorset, Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased, and Gifts of Gravity and Light. She is chair of Transition Town Wellington, and a regular columnist for the Guardian’s Country Diary. See anitaroy.net
     Anne Keer worked in journalism and television before taking to the Welsh hills to live closer to the natural world. The Wildness is her first novel."