Rachel Hewitt is a writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at
Newcastle University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature. Her first book, the best-selling MAP OF A NATION- A
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY (2010), won the Royal Society of
Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She was awarded a
Gladstone's Library Political Writing Residency for her second
book, A REVOLUTION OF FEELING- THE DECADE THAT FORGED THE MODERN
MIND (2017). Rachel is Director of the Newcastle Centre for the
Literary Arts and received the prestigious work-in-progress prize,
the Eccles British Library Writer's Award, for IN HER NATURE.
She loves trail-running and was 1st Female in the Punk Panther
Ultra Series in 2020 and 3rd Female in the Hardmoors Marathon
Series in 2019. Her longest run to date was the Punk Panther Dales
Way Challenge (c. 83 miles) in August 2021. She lives in Yorkshire.
Fascinating... This is a book of limitless curiosity and eloquent
passion
*The Times*
[A] deeply impressive, humane synthesis of scholarship, memoir and
rallying cry for women and girls to exercise their right to a place
in the world
*Guardian *Book of the Day**
An urgent tale of survival and subversion
*Economist, *Books of the Year**
Deft, absorbing and informative
*Times Literary Supplement*
Informative, essential reading on women's mountaineering wrapped
within a profoundly personal memoir. There is joy amid the anger
and hurt Rachel conveys on her journey of personal recovery through
recovering the stories of her newfound outdoors foremothers. I'm
sure many women will feel seen in these pages. The peaks of joy,
the lessons learned during the lows, and the rallying cry for our
right to feel safe outdoors will stay with me
*The Great Outdoors Magazine*
A highly original work… Quietly angry and fiercely feminist, it’s
the book I’ve been encouraging everyone to read
*Critic, *Books of the Year**
Rachel Hewitt's writing is always elegant, fierce, intelligent and
truthful. No one writes as well as she does about endurance - and
survival
*HELEN LEWIS, author of Difficult Women*
A book of courage, grief, anger, wisdom and fortitude. It demands
our attention
*HERMIONE LEE, author of Virginia Woolf*
An urgent, powerful, inspiring book about women making a space for
themselves in the macho world of outdoor pursuits-one that reflects
on what we risk and what we gain by turning our faces to the
wind
*CAL FLYN, author of Islands of Abandonment*
Insightful, compelling, and rightfully outraged, In Her Nature
brilliantly reclaims the hidden histories and contemporary
experiences of women running, hiking, climbing, and taking up space
in the world. An essential read, as well as a moving, revealing,
and empowering one
*JON MCGREGOR, author of Reservoir 13*
This astonishingly brave, deeply important and emboldening book
offers hope and encouragement for women to find freedom and solace
in the joyous expanse of the natural world
*HELEN CARR, author of What is History, Now?*
A stunning, raw and powerful book - about grief and putting
ourselves back together, about freedom and the fight for it, and
about strength and the hunger to test it
*TIFFANY WATT-SMITH, author of The Book of Human Emotions*
Brave, brilliant and quietly furious, In Her Nature makes a
powerful, original case for women claiming space
*VICTORIA SMITH, author of Hags*
Wonderfully well researched, and candidly honest, Hewitt openly
discusses topics which are often shied away from… this book is
thought provoking and compelling
*The Professional Mountaineer*
In her Nature reanimates the stories of the past to reveal,
brilliantly, the conditions through which women so often have to
battle in the present... [it] will make you want to run, and to
experience something of the hard-won emotional and physical freedom
that Hewitt's prose so movingly evokes
*DAISY HAY, author of Dinner With Joseph Johnson*
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