Yesterday was quite a bewildering day for me. I dropped Inka off at nursery and was stuck in a traffic jam on the way home, when my phone pinged with a message from my sister-in-law. She was letting me know about a review of The Trees from the Herald Scotland. Which obviously I couldn’t read, because I was slogging my way throughthe traffic, but as soon as I was parked I got to it. The review said:

The Trees is a stunning and vivid examination of the relationship between humans and the enviro...