A magical, hypnotically strange book of love and dreams, tragedy and myth, At Hawthorn Time sent shivers down my spine. Soaked deep in hedgerows and fields, it is a profoundly unsentimental yet deeply compassionate meditation on searching for myth and meaning, on our need to belong, and the place of history in the history of place. Harrison is writing us a new kind of modern pastoral: peopled, raw, messy, and shining.

Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK

At Hawthorn Time is intensely moving, a book overshadowed by disaster but still careful, precise, and hypnotically beautiful.

Evie Wyld, author of ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING

This elegant novel's true subject is its evolving pastoral setting.

Kirkus Reviews

Splendid, closely observed . . . acute, effortless . . . [Harrison's] growing audience must hope to live long enough to read everything she writes.

The Spectator (UK)

Harrison's love of the natural world and its traditions vibrates poetically through every page . . . [Her] imagination is wonderfully strange, her writing beautifully assured and controlled. At Hawthorn Time is social satire, but also a political protest against the intensive and increasing privatisation of the countryside, and a love letter to the power of nature.

The Times (UK)

The novel is as much a hymn to the ancient life-force of nature as it is a reminder of the underlying fragility of our busy modern world.

Independent on Sunday (UK)