Natural gardens

A Cottage on the Moss
by Lawrence Dyer • Published by Library Empyreal • Cover photography by Lauren Halkon

Want to live in a remote stone cottage up in the mountains? What do you do if it is constantly invaded by mice, rats and swarms of insects? What would it feel like when giant snowdrifts sever the electricity supply and all routes to the outside world?

Find out how the author and his wife encounter wild creatures, eccentric locals, uncooperative farm animals and go on to set up a herd of ponies. This is a true story of both triumphs and disasters - all set against the incredibly beautiful backdrop of the Pennine mountains with their bold dark crags of millstone grit, their secret valleys of moss-carpeted forests and clear brooks sheltering shoals of trout.

The true story of a young couple's struggle both against and with nature to bring back to life an old cottage and its surrounds.

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"Limpid stretches of pure beauty conveying the vibrancies and oxymorons of life and nature."