Anja Murray: Wild Embrace is a book celebrating what we have, right here on our doorstep

I consider our connection with nature to be core to how we cope with all that’s wrong with the world today

Anja Murray — going through the final edits to Wild Embrace in Connemara

This week is a particularly exciting week for me. 

Not because of all the cheerful yellow catkins brightening the branches of willow trees across the country, nor because the blackbird in the tree across from the house is singing extra-energetically (I assume he has mating on his mind). But this week is especially exciting for me because my very first book, Wild Embrace, is being published. Something I’ve been working on for a long time is now a physical reality.