Reviews for The Wildness

"In this story that is both gentle yet provocative, with a roar of quiet fury, hear of a woman’s rebellion, a hero of an oak tree, and a landscape remade by human hands. Hannah Sentance begins to despair as she watches her husband transform his estate into a manicured parkland. Author Anne Keer has the ability to take you by the hand and lead you to a place of sanctuary and defiance. She obviously has a deep abiding love for nature which shines through every word on the page. The natural world and countryside ways of a past life are dizzying and beautiful in their intensity. As Hannah narrates and journals her story, I was not only taken into the past, I was encouraged to feel our present and look into the future. This tale set as it is in a moment in time, travels the heartbeat of years, of survival. The clever and thought-provoking ending caused both heart ache and hope. The Wildness is a powerful historical novel of great beauty as it details a woman’s rebellion in a disappearing landscape."

Liz Robinson