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    Spring Book Reviews

    Oct 03, 2017 4 minutes
    by Mark Laurie.

    Understory: A Life with Trees

    by Inga Simpson

    Published by Hachette Australia

    ISBN 9780733635960

    $32.99

    A memoir from the forest by one of Australia’s pre-eminent nature writers, and author of the acclaimed Mr Wigg, combining painterly observation, a deep curiosity for natural history, and a talent for deftlypaced storytelling. Inga Simpson’s life, both personally and professionally as a writer, is revealed amidst the trees of the southern Queensland hinterland where she lives. The author is immersed in her surroundings and over time, the trees fashion her life as much as she, a modern-day dryad, fashions them. Trees and animals are lovingly described, emerging as individual lifeforms, with

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