Set in rural Yorkshire, it interweaves memories of the narrator's childhood with her deceased grandfather's unreliable historical writings.
[5] In her next novel, Emergency, a narrator in lockdown recalls her semi-rural childhood in the context of global environmental change.
Its four long essays are linked by themes of climate and ecology disruption in the Anthropocene.
[18][19] She gained a first-class degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 2003, and then studied for a doctorate in early modern scientific literature at Queen Mary, University of London.
[20] Hildyard is married to writer Caleb Klaces[20] (winner of a 2012 Eric Gregory Award[21]).