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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023

A powerful story of social inequality
RAYNOR WINN

Important and beautifully lyrical
THE TIMES

A fierce, urgent memoir
AMY-JANE BEER

To grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk. Natasha Carthew was born into a world that sat alongside picture-postcard Cornwall – one where second homes took the sea view of council properties, summer months shifted the course of people s lives, and wealth converged with poverty on sandy beaches.

In the rockpools and hedgerows of the natural world, Natasha found solace in the wild landscape, and a means of escape in her mobile library. In Undercurrent she retraces the cliff paths of her childhood, determined to make sense of an upbringing shaped by political neglect and a life defined by the beauty of nature.
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A story of queer resistance, of community and of finding your own voice
DAMIAN BARR

By turns marvellous, moving and mesmerising
ANITA SETHI

A proud, defiant account
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER

Haunting and powerful
KATE MOSSE

Fierce and honest
BBC COUNTRYFILE MAGAZINE