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August 25, 2025
I had a shimmer of regret that I didn't buy and read this before my most recent visit to the Lakes. However, I'm a great believer that sometimes a book finds you at the right time. This is one for them. Despite visiting the Lakes in my teens with my family, I fell in love when I was twenty one years old, when I visited with my boyfriend (now husband) and saw it completely different than before. Since then, every visit, whether a week or a weekend, we climb Loughrigg. It's the backdrop for some of my wedding photos. It was my son's first fell; at two years old! But I never quite worked out what I loved so much about this specific fell. And that's why this book fell in my hands at the right time because a couple of weeks ago, we took a new route and I said to my husband: "I've figured it out. Loughrigg has something familiar but something different every time!" and then reading this book, I learned, quite alot of people say the same thing!
Eileen Jones has written one of my favourite non fiction books. I have been memorized by this. There was not one chapter that bored me. I have learned things about Loughrigg I never knew, I feel like I have a greater connection with the the Lakes and the people who have lived here/fell in love with it too. And don't get me started on some of the folklore! Fairies, pixes, gremlins moving the trails to trick you? Loughrigg is a place of pure childlike wonder and while everything else changes in such a fast paced world, the fells never do (even if you find something new about it along the way!)
This book feels like a conversation with a friend. You're learning something new, but it's fun, it's entertaining, it's easy to understand. It's put you where you want to be. I might not be on Loughrigg right now, but Eileen has sure reminded me of the landscape and the feelings of being there with her words. I loved the tales by other people too. The mentions of Alfred Wainwright / William & Dorothy Wordsworth. I loved the poetry!
My review will turn into a book for the book, so I will just leave by saying thank you for this wonderful work Eileen!
Eileen Jones has written one of my favourite non fiction books. I have been memorized by this. There was not one chapter that bored me. I have learned things about Loughrigg I never knew, I feel like I have a greater connection with the the Lakes and the people who have lived here/fell in love with it too. And don't get me started on some of the folklore! Fairies, pixes, gremlins moving the trails to trick you? Loughrigg is a place of pure childlike wonder and while everything else changes in such a fast paced world, the fells never do (even if you find something new about it along the way!)
This book feels like a conversation with a friend. You're learning something new, but it's fun, it's entertaining, it's easy to understand. It's put you where you want to be. I might not be on Loughrigg right now, but Eileen has sure reminded me of the landscape and the feelings of being there with her words. I loved the tales by other people too. The mentions of Alfred Wainwright / William & Dorothy Wordsworth. I loved the poetry!
My review will turn into a book for the book, so I will just leave by saying thank you for this wonderful work Eileen!
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