Praise for The Stubborn Light of Things "[Harrison] reflects on the changing habitat around her with passionate understanding and gentle encouragement that we follow suit." -- The Guardian "Among our most celebrated nature writers in fiction and nonfiction . She is scandalised by the way that local authorities and developers tend to regard nature as a treat that ordinary people don't really deserve . [yet] an appealing feature of Harrison's book is how hopeful she remains." -- The Sunday Times "Harrison makes an ideal literary guide: unshowy, sensitive and knowledgeable." --Best Nature Books of the Year, The Times Praise for All Among the Barley "An in-the-bone connection with the natural world that contrives to be both sparklingly precise and wildly exhilarating . as an evocation of place and a lost way of life, Harrison's novel is astonishing, as potent and irresistible as a magic spell . a kind of time travel.

" -- The Guardian "Harrison is adept at making several realities exist uncannily alongside one another. She conjures up nature, with its timeless rhythms and beauty, and invades it with the political . accomplished." -- The Spectator "Exquisitely written, elegantly plotted." -- The New Statesman.