Location: Westwood Books
Website: https://www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/collections/events/products/rebecca-smith-rural
Admission: £5 redeemable against the price of the book
Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there.
Starting with Rebecca Smith’s own family history – foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal – Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape.
Tickets are available online at www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/collections/events/products/rebecca-smith-rural