Nicola Chester
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Nicola Chester is a British nature writer. She is a regular columnist in The Guardian and in the RSPB's magazine, and has written a memoir On Gallows Down.
Chester is from a working-class family: her father was a firefighter and her mother an assistant in local government. She applied to an agricultural college to study game and wildlife conservation management, but was told that the course was for gamekeepers and all gamekeepers were men. She spent a year working on a horse ranch in Canada, and then returned to England and studied English literature at King Alfred's College, now the University of Winchester, supporting herself with part-time jobs.[1] She works as a school librarian.[2]
