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  • Burn

  • A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
  • By: Ben Short
  • Narrated by: Ben Short
  • Length: 9 hrs
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Burn

By: Ben Short
Narrated by: Ben Short
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Publisher's summary

A frank and inspiring memoir about letting go of what we're told to want, risking everything to find happiness and the brutal salve of nature.

Ben Short has a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy part of London, a flashy motorbike. But after years of suffering with anxiety, he's a wreck. A drastic change is needed.

For a time, he finds solace working with a forester, then as an apprentice to a Gypsy woodman, setting up home in a dilapidated wagon with just a rescue dog for company. However, it is not until he feels the call of the furnace, a glowing charcoal kiln in the Dorset woods, that he can truly re-forge his thoughts, put the years of suffering behind him, and start afresh by immersing himself in the old ways of woods and fire.

Exquisitely written and deeply honest, Burn is a hopeful story of transformation, a celebration of manual work and craft, and a love letter to the English countryside.

©2022 Ben Short (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Awesome book

It’s not really about charcoal, it’s about how a guy who found healing and purpose leaving his corporate job and working in the woods. He is a poetic writer, that weaves a good story. And really speaks to the heart.

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