Bird Cottage Hayes shows how acts of

Hayes shows how acts of trespass have always challenged entrenched power and defended the freedoms of ordinary people

social history and memoir

And how have we managed to so comprehensively excise them from our cultural memory

plus a selection of Nancy's delicious recipes

Bird Cottage Hayes shows how acts of"I want to find out how they behave when they're free." Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her