Real Wild Heaven: 22,000 Years of Glen Dye - Book Launch
Join Charlie Gladstone and the Hawarden Estate Team to raise a glass and celebrate.
6-8pm.
11th June.
Hawarden Estate.
RSVP: events@hawardenestate.co.uk
About Real Wild Heaven, in Charlie’s words:
My latest book will be published in early June.
That sounds very grand, because I am not really a writer but somehow this is my third proper, grown-up book.
I am proud of all three, but the publication of this new one feels particularly exciting.
It is part historical fiction, part opinion piece, personal memoir, geography lesson, and musing on the fleeting nature of our time on this beautiful planet. It is at once gently educational, occasionally quite funny, deeply opinionated and possibly rather original.
I have written it to appeal to everyone, and I hope that it will resonate with readers whether they have visited Glen Dye or not.
At the beginning of this year, I didn’t know that I was going to write this book. I’d been messing around with an idea for a new book for a while, but I shelved that because I couldn’t get to grips with it. Then, in early January I was reading a book by the esteemed Danish poet and author Olga Ravn, and something clicked.
If you know me then you might be able to guess what happened next; I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours researching and writing, ploughing every hour of my down time into the book. (Thanks to Caroline for tolerating this, I know it’s annoying).
I worked hard, but it all just came pouring out. Looking back, I can’t quite believe that it did, but there you have it.
There are two editions; a hardback with eight pages of photos (colour and black and white), 22 illustrations and a map, and a paperback without the photos.
