The Raven's Nest

Preview

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Add to basket failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Adding to library failed

Please try again

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.

Try for £0.00

More purchase options

The Raven's Nest

By: Sarah Thomas

Narrated by: Sarah Thomas

Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £14.51

Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade, one which radically alters Sarah's understanding of herself and of the living world.

She embarks on a relationship not only with Bjarni, but with the light, the language and the old wooden house they make their home. She finds a place where the light of the midwinter full moon reflected by snow can be brighter than daylight, where the earth can tremor at any time and where the word for echo—bergmál—translates as 'the language of the mountain'. In the midst of crisis both personal and planetary, as her marriage falls apart, Sarah finds inspiration in the artistry of a raven's nest: a home which persists through breaking and reweaving—over and over.

Written in beautifully vivid prose, The Raven's Nest is a profoundly moving meditation on place, identity and how we might live in an era of environmental disruption.

Sarah ThomasSarah ThomasW. F. Howes Ltd

Ecosystems & Habitats

Europe

Nature & Ecology

Outdoors & Nature

Polar Regions

Science

Ecosystems & Habitats Europe Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Polar Regions Science

Critic reviews

"Fascinating." (Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways)

"Truly a thing of wonder." (Kerri nI Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places)

"Lyrical [and] thoughtful." (Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment)

Most relevant

This is a unique, moving memoire and true love story. It illuminates Icelandic landscapes and culture through an English woman's journey of assimilation.