Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written
by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature
diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna
and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a
breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery
through his reengagement with the world around him. Written in prose
that is as precise as it is beautiful, winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo
Editions Novel Prize, Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over a decade is a
stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.