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    The Freewood Years: My Son, His Animals and Me
    The Freewood Years: My Son, His Animals and Me
    The Freewood Years: My Son, His Animals and Me
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    The Freewood Years: My Son, His Animals and Me

    By Mary Denyer

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    The Second World War was nearing its end and Mary Denyer and her eleven-year-old son, John, were living in a small, thatched cottage in Freewood, Suffolk. They immersed themselves in the wildlife of the wood and their cottage became home to a succession of wounded or orphaned animals, including weasels, squirrels, badgers and a variety of birds.

    The Freewood Years is Mary Denyer's enchanting memoir of this time, written after the war ended but not published until 1998. Together, Mary and her son recreate an unforgettable tableau of a world within a world: of a beautiful, isolated environment untouched by the war. Above all, it is the story of a great and unsentimental love for wildlife undimmed by time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara
    Release dateOct 22, 2014
    ISBN9781782433361
    The Freewood Years: My Son, His Animals and Me
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    Mary Denyer

    Mary Denyer wrote the enchanting memoir The Freeman Years about her time living in a cottage among a manifold of wildlife as WWII came to an end. Although not published until 1998, this book is a timeless piece on the beauty of nature and the destruction of war.

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