A soaring celebration of summer and a poignant journey into the changing nature of the British season, from the award-winning author of Wintering and The Seafarers.
Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth, a time to celebrate abundance. And so, Stephen Rutt sets out to explore the natural world, during its moment of fullest bloom. Butterflies and dragonflies add color to his days; moths and bats lift the warm nights; swallows, nightjars and wood warblers fill the forests and skies.
What Stephen notices too, however, are the many ways in which the season is becoming, deranged by a changed and changing climate: the wrong birds singing at the wrong time; August days as cold as February; the creeping disturbances that we may not notice, while nature still, has some voice.
The Eternal Season is both a celebration of summer and a warning of the unravelling of this beautiful web of abundant life. This is, a book that sings with love and careful observation, with an eye on, all that we might lose, but also save.
