Ebook: On the Red Hill

'A marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.' Simon Jenkins

'There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice, this is the most necessary medicine: the tenderness of reality and the living, elemental, world.' Jay Griffiths

'Such a delightful book about beauty, joy, love and home... to be celebrated and read.' Sara Maitland

'A great queer rural triumph of a book – wonderfully passionate, funny and insightful. It overflows with love.' Tom Bullough

A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature.

In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ceremony in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. The celebrants were their friends Reg and George, who had moved to deepest rural Wales in 1972, not...