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<p><b>''Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying... a lovely book'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>''An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality'' Tristan Gooley<br></b><i><br><b>I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head.</b></i><br><br>On the outside, Ben Short looks like he has it all - a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy area of London, an expensive motorbike ... But inside, he''s a wreck. Years of suffering with an anxiety disorder and depression have broken him, and his ''creative'' career has become sterile and suffocating. A drastic change is needed.<br><br>Like his neighbour''s rescue hawk, he acts on instinct and escapes the city. For a time, he takes on odd jobs - gardening, hedge-laying and labouring in the Cambridgeshire Fens and in the Devon countryside, trying to find somewhere he belongs. That is until he feels the call of the furnace: a glowing charcoal kiln in the West Dorset woods, where he