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“Luke’s book was really important for meeting that need for a role model or some kind of representation. How he comes across those different sexualities is very extreme and very different. He’s primarily having settled and domestic relationships with women, but the male sexuality he stumbles across is in gay male cruising grounds in Epping Forest when he is exploring, as you say, his natural environment among the trees. He very poetically weaves in this conflict about his bisexuality, and wanting to own both parts of that identity, with this story about his relationship with nature.” Read more...
Rosie Wilby, Comedians & Humorist
“In his writing, the forest and the city bleed together. There isn’t this nature/culture divide in his work. He rejects this idea of the forest as rural idyll, and gives us these stories of the forest as a place of work. He talks about how ancient woodlands are managed landscapes over time. He talks a lot about crime, of sexuality, of dead bodies in the forests.” Read more...
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Jessica J. Lee, Memoirist
