A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer by Jenny Uglow #foliosociety honest and moving coming-of-age story

honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

In flight from a traumatic rural childhood

revealing the ways in which this struggle mirrored and reflected a much larger societal issue: that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit

A challenge from a man no one has ever seen

A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer by Jenny Uglow #foliosociety honest and moving coming-of-age story'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.' GUARDIAN 'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Uglow's style is supremely elegant and often amusingly bathetic, her research exhaustive but lightly worn.' FINANCIAL TIMES In 1781, Gilbert White was a country curate, living in the Hampshire village he had known all his life. Fascinated by the fauna, flora and people around him, he kept journals