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A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living The Story of Windsor Hill Wood
Tobias Jones
Memoirs, Prose: non-fiction, Alternative lifestyles
Share your belongings and start belonging - the story of Windsor Hill Wood
Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are?
Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his wife opened up their family home and ten acre woodland to those going through crises in their lives, or suffering from depression, addiction and loneliness.
They will encounter extraordinary people: from 'Roadkill Kev' to 'Mary Poppins'; build a chapel, raise pigs and encounter both violent antagonism and astounding generosity. At the same time, they will open themselves, their children and their ideals up to the most demanding of judgements and transformations.
Five years on, they think they are on to something. To sit down to eat together, to work on the land, to have no tolerance for drugs but a lot of tolerance for change a it takes time and many mistakes, but they have found a way to help people.
This is the story of how.
Tobias Jones
Tobias Jones is the author of four non-fiction books,A Blood on the Altar,A The Dark Heart of Italy, Basilitica and Utopian Dreams; andA the Castagnetti crime trilogy, The Salati Case, White Death and Death of a Showgirl. He has worked as a journalist in Britain for the London Review of Books,A the Independent on SundayA and theA Observer; and in Italy, producing two political documentary series for the Italian state broadcaster RAI 3. He lives at Windsor Hill Wood in Somerset with his wife and three children where he runs a working farm refuge.
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