She may not always grab the headlines but this book demonstrates the enormous amount she has achieved over the years by pushing for change to enhance, particularly women’s, lives. It is not environmental, but another memorable book I read this year was Harriet Harman’s autobiography. It is inspiring to hear about the regenerative effect of natural process, but the book is also about our desire to control and manage processes, the need for us to let go of our inner tidiness freak and trust nature to take its course.Ī woman’s work by Harriet Harman, Penguin, 2018 Fences are removed, animals, as close to pre-historic herbivores as possible, are introduced (all funded in large part by public money I should point out) and nature allowed to take its course. After years of working the heavy Sussex clay as hard as possible to try to generate a profit from dairy and then arable farming, the pair are inspired by the work of Frans Vera to allow it to ‘rewild’. Isabella Tree owns the Knepp Estate with her husband. This is a beautiful book about farming smarter rather than harder, about the transformative effect nature can have, not just on our environment but also on our outlook. A cricketer, a crime fiction writer, great women and some jaw dropping stories all feature.īelinda Gordon, strategy director (and her daughter Ottilie) Our annual roundup of favourite books on environmental and political themes is a good source of last minute Christmas gifts worth giving.
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