Ash Before Oak Travelling has journeyed through several of

has journeyed through several of those extraterrestrial worlds of sound

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Ash Before Oak Travelling has journeyed through several ofAsh before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrators interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrators subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful,