Nature Cure

A book of which only he could have written a single page...marvellously observed, deeply felt from sentence to sentence. The writing is exquisite - Evening Standard

A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...The account of how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living...Mabey's particular vision, informed by a lifetime's reading and observation, is ultimately optimistic. It is also what makes his voice so appealing amid all the froth and flam of the eco-debate - Sunday Times

Mabey is a radical, inheritor of an old English tradition...The core of the book is his exploration of his new landscape. It feels a privilege to share it, watching him unpick the layers of watery Norfolk, with dazzling skill and the warmest of hearts, as his troubled mind heals - Independent

Nature Cure is one of the most talked about books of our time.' 'Richard Mabey charts the primacy of the imagination in a sensual re-engagement with nature - Daily Telegraph Weekend

Written in the radiant, tingle-making prose that has earned Mabey literary prizes and a multitude of fans... both a wake-up call and an example of how the love of nature can electrify and heal the imagination. - Daily Mail

What good company is Richard Mabey - and how utterly necessary...like Seamus Heaney, he is one of those writers whose language is pressed very close to the world. It's exact and attentive, not a "dirty glass" which divides us from nature. - Scotland on Sunday

Nature Cure moves between the nervous breakdown of an individual and the madness of the modern world with a prescience akin to that of TS Eliot's Waste Land. - Guardian

He has rediscovered the credo that in his black moments he feared he had lost for ever: a belief in the importance of a sensual engagement with the world and a conviction that, to remain on an even keel in life, it is foolish to ignore the links that exist between feelings, the imagination and intelligence. - Spectator

Part autobiography, part meditation on the relationship between nature and culture. It's a dense, meandering work, a bit like Norfolk, with rivers of shining, sinuous prose suddenly emerging from intriguing thickets of opinion and memory... Mabey understands that beautiful writing is a matter of never being bigger than your subject...and has not lost the childlike pleasure in nature that transports him and his readers to the gates of heaven. - Daily Telegraph

An inspiring book. - Sunday Telegraph

Britain's greatest living nature writer. - The Times

A beautifully written memoir. - The Guardian

An inspiring read. - The Independent

'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times) describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.