Walks in the Wheat-fields

The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl''s feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks'' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the grinding toil of reaping the harvest, and the discovery of a gamekeeper''s bloody kill. Brimming with intense feeling, these pie...