Resurgence Book Club with Lesley Riddoch – ‘Huts: A Place Beyond’

Humble wooden huts have played a huge role in shaping Norwegian society, but their near-total absence in Scotland keeps children distant from Nature, Scots cooped up in cities, and modest holiday homes completely beyond the means of the average family. In her book ‘Huts: A Place Beyond’, Lesley Riddoch sets out to discover why local people in one of Europe’s prime tourist destinations have been elbowed off the land and exiled from Nature for so long. Her journey leaves her convinced that thousands of humble woodland huts would give people a vital post-Covid connection with Nature.

Join Lesley for a Q&A with Marianne Brown, followed by an interactive book club chat. We welcome questions for both the Q&A and the discussion afterwards. Please email your questions in advance to bookclub@resurgence.org with the subject line QUESTION FOR BOOK CLUB. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions during the meeting via the Zoom online chat.

Lesley is one of Scotland’s most familiar commentators and broadcasters. She was assistant editor of The Scotsman in the 1990s (and editor of The Scotswoman in 1995 when female staff wrote, edited and produced the paper) as well as contributing editor of the Sunday Herald. She is best known, however, for her programmes on BBC2, Channel 4, Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland, for which she won two Sony speech broadcaster awards.

Order a copy of ‘Huts: A Place Beyond’ on Lesley's website.

This is a free event. Any donations will raise money for The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity (no. 1120414).

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