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As global temperatures rise, something is stirring in the undergrowth around an affluent village. Helen McAlpine reads a new serial from Rachelle Atalla, set in a near future which is uncomfortably close to our present. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Rachelle Atalla is an award-winning Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her debut novel The Pharmacist was shortlisted for Best Fiction at the Scottish National Book Awards. In March, she published her climate-focused second novel Thirsty Animals. Her short stories have been published widely and she is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. In screenwriting, her first feature was developed with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Film and she is developing an adaption of The Pharmacist with Compact Pictures.