The Stubborn Light of Things

Episode Twenty-one: Normal

<p class="excerpt">Join Melissa as she gets lost in a tangled wood on the edge of the village. It’s windy, and a robin sings from the understorey, while toadstools are sprouting underfoot. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-21-normal/">Listen →</a></p>

I am a nature writer and novelist, and I’m lucky enough to be able to walk out of my cottage straight into Suffolk’s beautiful open countryside. For six months – as spring 2020 broke over the British Isles, and summer turned to autumn – I documented the wonder and richness of the natural world and the changing seasons and brought the outdoors into as many locked-down homes as I could.