Which country?

Patrick Galbraith says our rural landscape is much misunderstood

THERE IS ALMOST, I’M PRETTY sure, no form of exhaustion quite as heavy as the state you find yourself washed up in when you finish writing a book. I was grinding through final edits until 4 a.m. on Sunday and that night I set my alarm for 4.30 a.m. to get it all wrapped up by Monday lunchtime. I often say that you only really know what a book you’ve written is about when readers start telling you. “You’ve created,” a veteran London publisher said to me yesterday, “an extraordinary picture of how the modern English countryside actually works.” I’ll take his word for it. What I found particularly interesting, though (in writing what is ostensibly a book about how we engage with the land, as well as about accessibility)…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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