The Wildness with Anne Keer

Join us at Borderless Books as we welcome Anne Keer to the shop to talk about her new novel, The Wildness, which is published by Honno - an independent co-operative press run by women and committed to publishing the best in Welsh women's writing.

About the book

An eco-historical novel of love, land and resistance

As the Enlightenment dawns, Hannah Sentance finds herself increasingly disturbed by her husband Walter’s unyielding desire to transform the land

around their estate into an elite Gentleman’s Park. Local people will be evicted, an old way of life lost and an ancient oak tree felled. A symbol of resistance, wildness and a young woman’s love affair with nature, the tree embodies Hannah’s struggle for a way of belonging. But how can she – and it – survive?

‘The Wildness renders a pivotal time in history when two world views are on a collision course... She…