Rain & Sea Fog: Melissa Harrison & Amy Liptrot

However the weather makes you feel, it is an ever-present part of our lives – and our literature. The rain, the sun, the wind – these uncontrollable elements shape the landscapes that surround us, and deeply affect us both as individuals and as a nation.

At this exclusive event from Faber Members, in partnership with Forge & Company, two of the most exciting voices in nature writing, Melissa Harrison (At Hawthorn Time; Rain) and Amy Liptrot (The Outrun), discuss weather as a meteorological, geological and psychological phenomenon.

Come and join us for a glass of wine and some thoughtful discussion on a subject that, for better or worse, affects us all.

Melissa Harrison is an author, freelance writer and occasional photographer who lives in South London. Her second novel, At Hawthorn Time, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year award and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her latest book, Rain: Four Walks In English Weather, published by Faber & Faber with The National Trust, is an evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather.

Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which The Outrun has emerged. The Outrun, her first publication, is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island and city, and about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind and the moon to restore life and renew hope.