num_pages: 104
description: An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison.Whenever rain falls our countryside changes. Fields farms hills and hedgerows appear altered the wildlife behaves differently and over time the terrain itself is transformed.In Rain Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers in four seasons across Wicken Fen Shropshire the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.Blending these expeditions with reading research memory and imagination she reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us but a key part of our own identity too.
language: English
title: Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
publisher: Faber & Faber