' After Mark Cocker's glorious book you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again' Philip Hoare New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton a small village in Norfolk In a series of daily writings spanning the course of a year he explores his relationship to the landscape he lives in to nature & to all the living things around him
- the birds plants trees mammals hoverflies moths butterflies bush crickets grasshoppers ants & bumblebees Passionate astonishing & inspiring this book is a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award the Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards the New Angle Prize & the Thwaites Wainwright Prize