God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

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New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter.

Perhaps even more fascinating and beautiful are the changes that Goldsmith began to implement on his Somerset estate as a result of his daughter's death, in a kind of mirror to what happened at Knepp as described in Isabella Tree's book 'Wilding'.Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful, this will live with me for a very long time.

Ben Hoare * BBC Countryfile * [Goldsmith’s] personal experiences and thoughts feel vividly real to the reader .Ultimately, though, it was the continuous lure of the natural world that allowed Ben to find hope and healing in nature. Delivered to us at the perfect time and place Ben Goldsmith’s book ‘God is an Octopus’ is a wonderous piece of the puzzle, that takes us one step closer to healing - everything. Goldsmith’s unshaking honesty brings the reader along this journey of love, trauma, pain, grief and suffering, restoration and love again. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions.

In his exhaustion, Goldsmith surprises himself by jumping up and asking if Couldrey wants to go and see those newt ponds. Main Hi Kahaani Hoon”, an Audible Original is a weekly storytelling show of 20 episode from Audible, written-created-performed by Major Akhill Pratap; an ex-Army Officer popularly known as The Soldier and The Storyteller.Please feel free to DM me if you know of any opportunities that might be relevant, and I’ll be happy to share my CV! I have never suffered the kind of loss that Ben Goldsmith has, but I think I can far better imagine it having read this book. I clung to every sentence like a limpet hoping that time would slow down so I could digest and remember every word. Considering its incredibly heavy topic, God is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith is a surprisingly easy read. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover.

The first two chapters of this remarkable book are gut-wrenchingly sad as – somehow – Ben Goldsmith describes the awful death of his young daughter, Iris. At the end of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit tells us that the real question is not why mutual aid and altruism appear in the first place, but why they end.

She was speaking at the Hay Festival, the renowned annual literary event held in the village of Hay-on-Wye. In a way this was comforting too as it made me work through everything that happened and realise I wasn’t alone in feeling as I had.