Louisa Thomsen Brits / The Unknown Path

Born in Uganda to a Danish mother and English father, the writer Louisa Thomsen-Brits has made her home in East Sussex. Her first book, The Book of Hygge, was published 
in 2016. Path: a short story about reciprocity, was published earlier this year. Combining storytelling and nature writing, it is a tribute to the chalk paths near her home and to the restorative act of walking. On an early evening in March, Louisa takes us along one such path to visit the site of an old iron age fort, passing woodland and hawthorn and violets, and discussing the rich rhythm of writing, footstep and thought, and the particular relationship between women and landscape.