![]() Splendid - Mark Smith, Books of the Year * Herald * Genial, readable, warm-hearted and on nature's side - Richard Mabey * New Statesman * Highly engaging learned, thoughtful, studded with anecdote, aphorism, myth and scientific facts - Janette Curry * Times Literary Supplement * Woolfson has a novelist's ear for pacing and a keen eye for nature description. Woolfson charts with thought, compassion, and no little expertise, the coming and goings of those who share our city space - Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday **** * A likeably quirky book - Stephanie Cross * Sunday Telegraph * ![]() She deserves only praise for bringing her hidden city - and our hidden prejudices - so enjoyably to light. Woolfson writes vividly about all things feathered. It can only be hoped that books like this play a part in making us both notice and value the lovely creatures we stand to lose, before the wild portions of our cities have been entirely swept and tidied and paved out of existence - Olivia Laing * Observer *Īn illuminating, humane and informative companion in the great tradition of the finest nature writing - Catherine Lockerbie * Scotland on Sunday * ![]() Woolfson turns her beady eye to the muddled and fascinating ecology of her hometown of Aberdeen. Part autobiography, it is shot through with the solitude and wisdom of older age, as Woolfson pursues her scientific studies alone - Mike Wade * The Times * This is a beautiful book, a meditation and an investigation, a contemplation of our uncaring attitude to wild animals. ![]()
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