Laura Beatty & Edmund de Waal: Pear Trees

The latest publication from Hazel Press is a short story by Laura Beatty, the Ondaatje Prize-shortlisted novelist and biographer. Pear Trees, set in an Albanian mountain village, blends folklore and ecology to pose the largest of questions about our relationship with the living world.

Beatty read from the chapbook and was in conversation with potter and author Edmund de Waal, whose most recent books include An Archive (Ivorypress) and Perdendosi (Hazel Press).