Writer, essayist, playwright, novelist and dramatague Nigel Featherstone chatted with me on the show, discussing his latest novel - ‘My heart is a little wild thing’.

Topics discussed include:

Landscapes - our ties to them - how they can shape us and define us. How we feel such strong, ineffable ties to them. How the other living beings that inhabit them (from birds to trees and everything else in between) also serve to shape our perception and feelings about the land and about life.

How people we know and love can remain a mystery to us, even after decades. (Even touched on Sumner Locke Elliott a bit - I felt very special picking up the reference).

Caring for aging parents - how it is much more a privilege than an obligation. How this relationship in the story can be viewed as our generation caring for the environment - and what the cataclysmic cost could be if we fail to do so.

And so, so much more!

Thanks so much to Nigel for chatting with me on the show, get your copy of ‘My heart is a little wild thing’ now.