![]() ![]() My refuge is plants.” Not all plant-love is innocent, then. To be sure, she beats herself up a bit about her selfishness as “the woman who left her sick husband” (he has cystic fibrosis). Missing from this narrative is the voice of H, the husband she abandons - though she acknowledges him to be “fragile, fraught, wounded, and mostly disbelieving”. ![]() After trying out London’s canals for a change, she finds them too crowded and says, artlessly: “I realised I wasn’t yet ready to share my canals with too many others.” And then there’s the chapter in which she tells Charlotte in all seriousness that she thinks her spirit animal might be a rat… ![]() For obvious reasons, I love dykes.”Ī joke at last? Perhaps not, though. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. They do the opposite of the standard formation. Beautifully written, honest and very moving, Hidden Nature is also the story of Alys Fowler's emotional journey and her coming out as a gay woman: above all, this book is about losing and finding, exploring familiar places and discovering unknown horizons. If everything else is horizontal, dykes are vertical.
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