Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024 With dizzying acuity and insight Roberts paints a portrait of a life and its landscapes creating precious connections with wild creatures and places from swans in the Cambrian Mountains to wolves in the Pacific Northwest By walking at dawn and dusk in the two lights of awakening and deepening through the stripped windswept hills of Wales and the jungles and savannahs of Africa he navigates from a soul stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future In the presence of wild creatures he finds a way back to life