My refuge is plants.” Not all plant-love is innocent, then. To be sure, she beats herself up a bit about her selfishness as “the woman who left her sick husband” (he has cystic fibrosis). Missing from this narrative is the voice of H, the husband she abandons - though she acknowledges him to be “fragile, fraught, wounded, and mostly disbelieving”. honest and very moving, Hidden Nature is also the story of Alys Fowlers. After trying out London’s canals for a change, she finds them too crowded and says, artlessly: “I realised I wasn’t yet ready to share my canals with too many others.” And then there’s the chapter in which she tells Charlotte in all seriousness that she thinks her spirit animal might be a rat… Fowlers moving memoir charts her experience of coming out as a gay woman. For obvious reasons, I love dykes.”Ī joke at last? Perhaps not, though. They do the opposite of the standard formation. If everything else is horizontal, dykes are vertical. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪt one point, she says of basalt dykes, a geological formation: “Dykes are easy to spot because they cut across the norm.Cook is an actress and audiobook narrator. Miranda Bunny Cook does an excellent job narrating the book. Fowlers moving memoir charts her experience of coming. The book was seven and a half hours long. Read Hidden Nature Wainwright Prize 2018 Shortlisted by Alys Fowler available from Rakuten Kobo. I understand the book was on the short list for the Wainwright Prize.
The author made paddling the canals sound like great fun. Fowler states that volunteers are working to re-establish some of the forgotten canals that are unusable. I think if they were cleaned up they would make a great recreational area for people. It also made me want to clean up the garbage in and along the canals and fight to have the canals dredged. The book made me want to paddle the canals and observe nature. I got a big kick out of her encounter with the geese. Fowler also describes the floating rubbish, discarded industrial equipment and even floating coconut shells. She tells of paddling through the Dudley tunnel and through the Gast Street Basin as well as the Oozell Street Loop. Fowler describes the wildlife and plant life that grows along the banks and in the water. The author describes some of the canals that were built in the 1790s. Fowler bought a portable, inflatable kayak that she could put into a backpack to explore the canals of Birmingham. She thought about climbing in the Andes Mountains, but then reality brought her to seek something closer to home. Reviewing my third book of the Wainwright Prize Shortlist 2018, in time for the winner being announced. Fowler wanted an adventure and to be alone with nature.
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