bannork ·
‘Everywhere I went, I looked for solace in nature’ … Helen Harris, by the River Lea in east London. Photograph: Rebecca Black After her husband died in January 2023, something strange began happening on Helen Harris's daily walks. Birds started coming remarkably close, hopping alongside her, chirping and appearing to accompany her when nobody else was around. For a woman newly bereaved after 35 years of marriage, the encounters were impossible to ignore. But was there something more to them —