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Longlisted for the James Copper Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing Winner for the Richard Jefferies Award 2021 for Best Nature Writing ‘Evocative and inspiring…environmental protest, family, motherhood and…nature.’ Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, Costa Novel Award Winner 2021 ‘It’s ever so good. Political, passionate and personal.’ Robert Macfarlane ‘I couldn’t put it down! A must read!’ Dara McAnulty, author of Diary of a Young Naturalist? Nature 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 nighti