{"product_id":"the-green-hill","title":"The Green Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable. Will be a great comfort to those who need it\" -- Sarah Perry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017, Sophie Pierce's world changed forever when her twenty-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into this new reality, she had to find a way to keep on living. By writing a series of letters to Felix - composed during walks and swims taken close to his burial place by the River Dart - Sophie gradually learned how to dwell in the landscape of sudden loss, navigating the weather and tides of grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Green Hill\u003c\/i\u003e collects these letters alongside Sophie's account of the years following Felix's death, into which she weaves poignant memories of his life. What results is a deeply moving, beautifully captured record of how - amid the plants and rivers of Dartmoor, and in the sea off the South Devon coast - Sophie was able to hold on to and nurture her bond with Felix, both in her mind and through a physical engagement with the landscape: actively mourning, rather than grieving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is a celebration of the natural world and the role it plays in our lives and relationships, as well as examining how beauty, a sense of place and the passing seasons can help us contend with our own mortality. Above all, though, \u003ci\u003eThe Green Hill \u003c\/i\u003e is one woman's story of navigating through trauma and loss, and towards a fragile, complicated kind of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48942467809454,"sku":"9781806770144","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/4417\/1694\/files\/imageloader_277edbe0-2ea8-421f-acc1-c4e4c24ad254.jpg?v=1787619146","url":"https:\/\/ofmooseandmindbookshop.com\/products\/the-green-hill","provider":"Of Moose and Mind Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}