Rain

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison. <p/>Whenever rain falls the English countryside changes. Fields farms hills and hedgerows appear altered the wildlife behaves differently and over time the terrain itself is transformed. In <i>Rain</i> Melissa Harrison 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 and memory she shows that rain is part and parcel of the English identity.