The Wild Other: A memoir of love, adventure and how to be brave

Clover Stroud

£9.99

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Clover Stroud’s idyllic childhood in rural England was shattered when a horrific riding accident left her mother permanently brain-damaged. Just 16, she embarked on a journey to find the sense of home that had been so savagely broken. Travelling from gypsy camps in Ireland, to the rodeos of west Texas and then to Russia’s war-torn Caucasus, Clover eventually found her way back to England’s lyrical Vale of the White Horse. ‘The Wild Other’ is a grippingly honest account of love, loss, family and the healing strength of nature.

ISBN: 9781473630246 Category:

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‘Extraordinary. I’ve never met anyone who has read it and doesn’t rank it as one of their favourite books.’ DOLLY ALDERTON

So fierce and brave and visceral and raw – will stay with me forever. I loved it.’ ELIZABETH GILBERT

‘Full of heart, bravery and adventure.AMY LIPTROT

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

Clover Stroud grew up in rural Wiltshire surrounded by animals and family. When she was just sixteen her adored mother had a horrific riding accident which left her permanently brain-damaged, and suddenly Clover was left to fend for herself. She embarked on an extraordinary journey to heal her broken heart, courting men and danger through two marriages and five children.

The Wild Other is a grippingly honest account of love, sex and travelling to the darkest edges of human experience and back again. Powerful and deeply emotional, this is the story of an extraordinary life lived at its fullest.

There is so much richly evoked life here… beautifully written.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times

‘This redemptive memoir will steal your heart; it will return it bruised but emboldened.’ Mail on Sunday

Additional information

Weight 0.202 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

277

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

941.085092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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