I really enjoyed 'Emergency' by Daisy Hildyard. It is redolent of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'The Secret Garden', stories seen through the eyes of a child - a magical childhood, but one with an edge. Exploring the interconnectedness of everything and the fragility and vitality of nature, it is a hymn to the earth. There are so many memorable passages that make you feel you're there too, and want to tell someone about it. Some of the writing is so poetic that it deserves to be read aloud.

Alone during lockdown, the narrator, an acute observer of nature, looks back on her country childhood. This is no romantic tale: it's real life where species disappear and people come back from oil rigs with fingers missing. Told in a mesmerising, unemotional way through the eyes of a child.