Novels in the Wild with Rowe Irvin & Anne Keer

Join us as we celebrate two extraordinary novels - set in nature, on escaping into the wild, resistance and finding places to belong.

Life Cycle of a Moth by Rowe Irvin

LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2026

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2025

Myma, do you hear it? Myma, do you hear? Myma?Maya and Daughter live in complete isolation in a secluded woodland, their days aligned with the light and changing seasons, a complex pattern of routine and ritual. One day, when Daughter is almost sixteen, a red-haired stranger steps into the confines of their territory. Where there was always two, suddenly there are three - and the carefully constructed world that Maya has built to keep her daughter safe may not survive it.

The Wildness by Anne Keer 

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?