I love this book. Strong, clever, intelligent advice with soul.

A wonderful look at how to transform our homes to be more mindfully aligned with our true nature and a reflection of who we are.

A happy home is a fundamental building block of happiness, and Michelle's book is an essential, step-by-step guide to creating a home we love.

A must-have read for anyone looking to improve not just their home but also their quality of life within it.

Practical guidance on making the most of what we have in order to find inner calm and outer contentment

[An] extended tribute to the beauty and usefulness of the ash tree... A homage to vanishing skills that were once integral to the functioning of rural Britain

A beautifully figured and multicolored ode to our love affair with the invaluable Ash tree. I swooned. Penn's paean to the many uses of the Ash is so well-wrought that I am compelled to take up hurling

There's a bit of a wood theme this year, in fact, with ... Robert Penn's The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees. One can't help but wonder if all these books encouraging self-reliance and back-to-nature are signs of impending apocalypse

A eulogy to the importance of ash throughout human history . . . Fascinating

I was completely smitten . . . [A] delightful, page-turning love letter to an often-overlooked material

Often wry and always interesting . . . A passionate love letter to the ash tree

A delight to read . . . Penn's writing is poetic . . . [The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees] speaks to the quality of the human experience, of craftwork and making things by hand, of appreciating resourcefulness and natural beauty

This book is a great pleasure to read . . . I defy anyone to read this and not want their own collection of natural and unique objects to connect our daily lives back to the natural woodland which once covered the country