SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'Hold it in your hands and then dream of the green world' MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch 'A masterclass on how to write place, dreams and memory into being' OLIVE SENIOR, Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-2024 'Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect' MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'The most exquisitely written meditation on family, childhood, and nature' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Manifesto The Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the ‘grung’ and plants. It’s also a people’s history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. It’s the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve ‘upward social mobility’ and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds. Suddenly, amidst his journey of dreams and class