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‘A brilliant book about another side of working-class life, not a tower block in sight. Clever and honest ? I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL<\/h2>\n

‘Acute and dislodging and revelatory’ THE SCOTSMAN<\/em><\/h2>\n

‘A wonderful book, beautifully conceived’ ADAM NICOLSON<\/h2>\n

‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN<\/h2>\n

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.<\/h2>\n

In this beautifully observed book, Rebecca Smith traces the stories of foresters and millworkers, miners, builders, farmers and pub owners, to paint a picture of the working class lives that often go overlooked.<\/p>\n

Living in rural areas means being surrounded by natural beauty, but for many it also demands hard work, precarity, fewer opportunities and – increasingly – being pushed out of the place your family might have called home for generations. In Rural<\/em>, Rebecca Smith brings together the reasons we all love nature with the histories of life in its midst, and a prescient look at the dynamics for rural areas today. Why are our farmers struggling to make a profit on a pint of milk? What has Airbnb done to small communities in places like the Lake District?<\/p>\n

In a gorgeous tour of Scotland, England and Wales, this is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside, whose family owes something to a bygone trade, or who is interested in the future of rural Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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