Neither quite memoir nor travel writing, Hungry Heart Roaming: An Odyssey of Sorts weaves autobiography and landscape in the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor. 
Charles Moseley moves between interconnected moments across a lifetime — a boy on a beach, lovers in Crete, a figure in postwar Berlin, a couple watching starling murmurations over the Fens — to ask how individual lives are caught up in the larger patterns of history. 
Reflective, wide-ranging and generous, it meditates on kindness, war, politics, love and learning. Rowan Williams called it 'deeply satisfying... moving and celebratory,' the work of 'a supremely good companion.'