On Gallows Down - Place, Protest and Belonging (Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing) (Chester Nicola)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing - Highly CommendedWinner for the Richard Jefferies Award 2021 for Best Nature Writing''A rural, working-class writer in an all too rarefied field, Chester’s work is unusual for depicting the countryside as it is lived on the economic margins.'' The Guardian''An important portrait of connection to the land beyond ownership or possession.'' Raynor Winn‘It’s ever so good. Political, passionate and personal.’ Robert Macfarlane‘Evocative and inspiring…environmental protest, family, motherhood and…nature.’ Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, Costa Novel Award Winner 2021Nature is everything. It is the place I come from and the place I got to. It is family. Wherever I am, it is home and away, an escape, a bolt hole, a reason, a place to fight for, a consolation, and a way home.As a child growing up in rural England, Guardian Country Diarist Nicola Chester was inexorably drawn to the natural landscape surrounding her. Walking, listening and breathing in the nature around her, she followed the call of the cuckoo, the song of the nightingale and watched as red kites, fieldfares and skylarks soared through the endless skies over the chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs: the ancient land of Greenham Common which she called home.Nicola bears witness to, and fights against, the stark political and environmental changes imposed on the land she loves, w
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