_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES
WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and
intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December together with its
biography. In exquisite prose John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from
cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn and includes the
biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan the
fox family the rabbit warren the skylark brood and the curlew pair among others. Their births
lives and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last.
