15^th January 2014

Pleaching

Last summer, belly full of unborn kid, I went for a plodding sort of walk with my mother round her neighbourhood. We circled the streets, the patch of London where she’s lived for nearly 50 years, w… Read article

Sophie Elmhirst is the features editor of the New Statesman. She also writes for Harper's Bazaar, the Financial Times, Aeon, Five Dials and the Observer. @sophieelmhirst