Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforest

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2025

This powerful memoir explores mental health, the healing power of nature, and the urgent need to restore it. Merlin Hanbury-Tenison's personal journey is intertwined with the discovery and fight to save one of the UK's last remaining fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest on his family's Cornish hill farm.

Key Features/Benefits:

• An honest and intimate true story about renewal and the healing power of nature.
• Explores the challenges of restoring a damaged ecosystem and a family farm.
• Offers a blueprint for restoring Britain's ancient rainforests.
• A compelling narrative of overcoming personal trauma and environmental crisis.

Specifications:

• Author: Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
• Publisher: Witness Books
• Publication Date: 19 February 2026
• Language: English
• Print Length: 304 pages
• Binding: Paperback
• Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm
• Weight: 280 g
• ISBN-10: 152914423X
• ISBN-13: 978-1529144239

This book is perfect for readers of nature writing, memoirs, and those interested in environmental conservation, offering a deeply personal and inspiring account of healing and restoration.