Book description
'If you ever doubted that you can help change the world, READ THIS BOOK.' CAROLINE LUCAS 'The greatest existential crisis we face distilled into the crucible of a tiny piece of paradise.' CHRIS PACKHAM Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury has a…
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Kate has done something quite wonderful. She has written a lovely book about her garden and how she has worked with it to share her space with nature ... which is at the same time a furious critique of the failings of governments and corporations to take the threat to our shared world seriously. Please - read it.
Kate has done something quite amazing with this book—there is a gorgeous surface of nature/garden writing. She is a knowledgeable and brilliantly skilled author, which alone would have made this a wonderful book.
But there is a depth to it—one of absolutely righteous anger at the state of the world—as seen through the microcosm of her beloved garden. The rage never overtakes the story, but a simmering tension reminds us of what needs to be done.
The fact that she has a passionate relationship with hedgehogs, too, is just icing on a delicious cake!
From Hugh's list on animals and nature.
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