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On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging

by Nicola Chester - £10.99  Chelsea Green Publishing UK (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781915294067 | ISBN 10: 1915294061

Shortlisted 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 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, whilst raising her family to appreciate nature and to feel like they belong – core parts of who Nicola is. From protesting the loss of ancient trees to the rewilding of Greenham Common, to the gibbet on Gallows Down and living in the shadow of Highclere Castle (made famous in Downton Abbey), On Gallows Down shows how one woman made sense of her world – and found her place in it.

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