Our Oaken Bones

Our Oaken Bones is an honest and intimate true story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return. Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor.

Our Oaken Bones tells the story of their unexpected challenges a farm slipping ever further into debt, the discovery that their woodlands are in fact one of the UK’s last remaining Atlantic temperate rainforest, and the sudden strickening by Covid of Merlin’s father, the explorer Robin.

The book will be available to purchase on the evening and Merlin will be signing books and answering audience questions.