Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life

Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life - Hardcover

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Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life

Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life - Hardcover

by Manni Coe
$28.00
Sale price  $28.00 Regular price 

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'Beautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING
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The Corner is a place where birds with broken wings will come to heal.

Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take a risk and buy 'The Corner', a crumbling but beautiful 150-year-old farmstead tucked into a remote valley in Andalusia, surrounded by olive trees. It's perfect for their unconventional family of three: Jack, Manni and his youngest brother, Reuben. Secluded from the village by a river and in awe of the extraordinary Spanish landscape, Manni watches their land teem with mountain goats and wild boar, red deer and seasonal swallows. He begins to feel that this might be the place where each of them will find their peace.

But nothing is ever so simple. Though their hilltop village offers food, fellowship and guidance, many visitors bring their own problems and troubled pasts over the river. While Manni and Jack work to afford rebuilding The Corner, who will care for Reuben in the way that he deserves? And as Manni starts to realise that the scars from his childhood - kept hidden for all these years - might not have healed at all, a single, terrible event threatens everything the three of them have spent so long building together.

From landscape and poetry to family and friendship, Little Ruins is a heart-mending exploration of human connection, nature's gifts and the power of love in all its forms.
ISBN9781837263240
Author Manni Coe
PublisherCanongate Books
GenreBiography and Travel
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Manni Coe

Manni Coe grew up in Yorkshire and Berkshire. He studied Latin American history culture at Edinburgh University which took him on adventures in South America before he finally settled in Andalucia, Spain. He now lives between Dorset and a tiny town called Archidona. He is the second of four brothers. He works as a private guide in Spain and around the world. brother.do.you.love.me is his first book. Reuben Coe grew up in Berkshire and is the youngest of four brothers. He completed a B-tech in Drama and has a passion for drawing. His art has been used by both Norwich and St Paul's Cathedral and his range of Christmas cards helped raise funds for the NHS during the pandemic. brother.do.you.love.me is his first book.

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