This was a terrible year for me, but spending time in nature helped

My mental health cratered this year after the death of my wife, Clare. Getting out into the natural world has helped me to cope, says Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton

I WON’T mourn the passing of 2022. It has been an annus horribilis for me, my family and our friends. Clare, my life partner of nearly 30 years, wife for 24 of them and mother of my three children, ended her own life in August after enduring a chronic pain syndrome for the best part of a year. I became her carer as her pain spiralled into an abyss of torture. I tried everything I could to save her life, but I failed. …