Melissa Harrison: ‘Fascism grows like a fungus’

The novelist on the political intrigue of 1930s Suffolk and how a Ladybird book rekindled her interest in the natural worldMelissa Harrison’s writing, whether in her novels, short stories or nonfiction, has always been driven by a profound sense of the importance of nature, of the turning of the seasons, of the way that an environment works upon the people who live within it. Her first novel, Clay (2013) told the story of three very different characters seeking solace in urban wildlife. He