“Just above the weir where the dyke turned east away from the farm towards Willow Shaw was the perfect spot: a clear pool, milky-grey and still as glass”

An autobiographical essay about home, belonging and growing up on the wild, watery landscape of Laughton Place in rural East Sussex.

Published in the anthology of place and nature writing, Going to Ground (Little Toller, 2024). Available from Bookshop,org