The Wild Silence (2020) is a memoir set in Cornwall, England. It follows the author’s first book The Salt Path ( 2019) about the 630 mile (1,000 kilometre) walk, with her husband Moth, along the South West Coast Path. After their long walk along the South West Coast Path, they are homeless and decide to rent a farm house. This sequel recaps the author’s first memoir before detailing how they came to rent a farm house in a Cornwall fishing village. Moth is diagnosed with a terminal neurodegenerative disease, with no treatment and no cure. After Raynor’s mother’s death the author says, ‘I was sobbing through one death, with the weight of another bearing down on me.’ Raynor writes of their new journey in their rental farm house as they prepare for Moth’s decline and death. Both in their 50s, Raynor and Moth, return to nature, and Moth is revitalized by his love of it, and of re-wilding the farm. The dilapidated stone house and orchard need a lot of work and care. While working on th