{"id":1976,"date":"2020-05-06T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/January-Man.jpg"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T13:14:21","slug":"january-man","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1976","title":{"rendered":"The January Man"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-1976","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","post","fix"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/January-Man.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/January-Man.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The January Man\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1784161241\/ref=nosim\/christopherso-21\" target=\"jm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy your copy here<\/a><br \/>\nThis is the book towards which my whole writing life has been heading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristopher Somerville\u2019s moving, measured and immaculate The January Man is part walker\u2019s diary, part celebration of his reticent yet loving father.\u201d<br \/>\n(Jim Crace, author of Quarantine and Harvest)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a writer, the highest compliment he or she can pay another writer is envy. And I was green on reading The January Man. It\u2019s not just Somerville\u2019s knowledge, it\u2019s the truth and clarity in his prose \u2013 which is like the pure tone that comes from a tuning fork.\u201d<br \/>\n(John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland and The Running Hare)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a wise, entertaining, kind book \u2013 one that makes you want to walk, and want to read. The language is taut, beautiful, sparky and generous. It\u2019s a book not just for walkers or nature lovers, but anyone who loves a good plain story.\u201d (Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry)<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This is\u00a0nature at its most embracing; human nature richly-woven into the cycle of the seasons and the ecologies of father and son, observed with the passion and learning of Britain\u2019s favourite walker. 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