West

Part memoir, part travelogue, legendary writer Jim Perrin charts a journey of loss, love and grief in the face of the deaths of his wife and son. Simply extraordinary, West is set to become a classic of its kind. 'West's hand grasps your heart so violently as to leave thumbprints... I came out at the end feeling that my face had been breathed on by fire; I had been washed in the writer's scalding tears... Peerless.' Independent

Part memoir, part travelogue, legendary writer Jim Perrin charts a journey of loss, love and grief in the face of the deaths of his wife and son. Simply extraordinary, West is set to become a classic of its kind.West tells the story of Jim Perrin's life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a complex and sensual love-story, a celebration of the beauty and redemptive power of wild nature and an extraordinary account of one man's journey towards the acceptance of devastating personal loss.