Owl Sense Av Miriam Darlington

<p><b>A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week</b><br><b>Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018<br></b><b>A <i>Guardian</i> Book of the Year 2018</b><br><br>The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia; as a predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom or portent of doom. <i>Owl Sense</i> tells a new story. <br><br>On ‘owl walks’ with her teenage son, Benji, Miriam Darlington begins a quest to identify every European species of this elusive bird. From Britain she travels to Spain, France, Serbia and Finland, and to the frosted borders of the Arctic. Along the way, however, Benji succumbs to a mysterious and disabling illness, and Miriam’s endeavour soon becomes entangled with the search for his cure. Bringing the strangeness and magnificence of owls to life, <i>Owl Sense </i>is a book about wildness in nature but also in the unpredictable course of our human lives.</p>