The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison lotus Children of the Forest is

Children of the Forest is an ode to imaginative play and the wild fun you can have while staying close to home

"A contemporary master--a genius

and Kevin McNally

"--Elizabeth Berg

20 Minutes

The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison lotus Children of the Forest isA nature diary by award winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. When I lived in London I barely noticed the winter solstice. Nothing slowed, contracted or dimmed to mark the shortest day of the year, for, like all cities, London has all but left such trifling considerations behind. But now I am in Suffolk, and the difference could not be more marked. I wake in