Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

by Melissa Harrison

Overview

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.

Whenever rain falls, the English countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed. In Rain, Melissa Harrison follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor. Blending these expeditions with reading, research and memory, she shows that rain is part and parcel of the English identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571328949
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	02/01/2018
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	976,614
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Melissa Harrison writes a monthly Nature Notebook column in The Times. Her debut novel Clay (2013) won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award and was chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. Her second, At Hawthorn Time, was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It was one of A. S. Byatt's Summer Reads in the Observer, and a Book of the Year for 2015 in the Telegraph. She lives in south London.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Rain is a fascinating exploration, a celebration and a meditation on that curiously English obsession." - Observer

"Rain is a beautiful little book. Melissa Harrison offers us the simple pleasure of being outside, and the less obvious pleasure of being outside in the rain." - Philip Marsden, author of Rising Ground