Gifts of Gravity and Light by Anita Roy - ISBN: 9781529363159
Hardcover
Diverse voices illuminate nature’s wonder through changing seasons and personal stories.

Gifts of Gravity and Light

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  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    29 November 2021

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Summary

‘A generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood, family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that enable the big connections with the flow of the world.’ - Mark Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures

‘A meander through the seasons that is filled with lyrical gifts and new ways of seeing the world. This is new nature writing - as diverse, original and ceaselessly surprising as the wild world it celebrates.’ Patrick Barkham, Natural History corre…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529363159
ISBN-10:1529363152
Author:Anita Roy, Pippa Marland
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:29 November 2021
Weight:380g
Dimensions:218mm x 138mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

This is a generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood, family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that enable the big connections with the flow of the world. * Climate Cultures *

About The Author

Anita Roy

Anita Roy (Author)

Anita Roy is a writer, editor and publisher of mixed British and Indian heritage. She spent twenty years living and working in New Delhi, until returning to the UK where she was brought up. Her work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Clearing and the Dark Mountain project. She has recently published an acclaimed novel for children and the nature diary A Year at Kingcombe: The Wildflower Meadows of Dorset.

Pippa Marland (Author)

Pippa Marland is an author and academic, based at the University of Bristol. Her research, currently funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on nature writing, especially the representation of small islands and farming communities. Her creative writing draws on her childhood experiences of living in Ghana, Malta, West Wales, and the South of England, as well as her lifelong islomania. It has appeared in Earthlines, The Clearing, and Women on Nature. Her academic works include the co-edited Walking, Landscape and Environment, the forthcoming co-authored Modern British Nature Writing 1789-2020: Land Lines, and a monograph entitled Ecocriticism and the Island. She is also a musician and songwriter, represented by Real World Music Publishing.

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