I Can Hear the Cuckoo

"Kiran Sidhu never thought she could leave London, but when her mother passes away, she knows she has to walk out of her old life and leave her toxic family behind. She chooses fresh air, an auditorium of silence and the purity of the natural world - and soon arrives in Cellan, a small, remote village nestled in the Welsh valleys. At first, the barrenness and isolation is strange. But as the months wear on, Kiran starts to connect with the close-knit community she finds there; her neighbour Sarah, who shows her how to sledge when the winter snow arrives; Jane, a 70-year-old woman who lives at the top of a mountain with three dogs and four alpacas; and Wilf, the farmer who eats the same supper every day, and teaches Kiran that the cuckoo arrives in April and leaves in July"--Publisher's description.

Kiran Sidhu is a freelance journalist and has written features, lifestyle and opinion pieces for the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, The i Paper, The Independent, Metro, Woman magazine, Woman's Own and Breathe magazine. Her article about her farmer friend Wilf was the 13th most read article in the Guardian in 2021, and was made into a short film Heart Valley, directed by Christian Cargill and produced by Pulse Films. She lives in the Welsh Valley with her husband.
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