Stuart Jeffries and film-maker Grant Gee retrace "a portion of the walk [W. G.] Sebald did over several days for what is arguably his greatest book, 1995's The Rings of Saturn."
The sea wind whips through my thermals and the driving rain mocks my decision to leave the waterproofs in the car. Cliff-top paths, walkable last spring, have toppled into the sea. The nearest pub is miles away. Yet here we are, standing on the cliff at Covehithe in Suffolk, on the very spot where the great writer WG Sebald stood....