A beautifully told, deeply personal growing-up memoir from the BBC presenter about life, death, love and nature.
TV presenter, photographer and conservationist Chris Packham is one
of the nation's favourite naturalists. He is best known for the
BAFTA-winning The Really Wild Show and fronting BBC's Springwatch
and Autumnwatch. Packham is president of the Hawk Conservancy
Trust, the Hampshire Ornithological Society and the Bat
Conservation Trust and vice-president of the RSPB and the Butterfly
Conservation. In 2011, he was awarded the British Trust for
Ornithology's Dilys Breese Medal for his 'outstanding work in
promoting science to new audiences', and in 2016 he won the
Wildscreen Panda Award for Outstanding Achievement, for his
contribution to wildlife filmmaking.
Packham's partner Charlotte Corney owns the Isle of Wight Zoo, and
his step-daughter is studying zoology at Liverpool University. He
lives in the New Forest.
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar is like nothing else I know - a
flickering vat of life itself. A brilliant and remarkable book.
*Robert Macfarlane*
It’s bold and beautiful, both raw and lyrical, and a rather special
book.
*Independent*
Incredibly powerful and moving.
*Richard E. Grant*
A beautiful, riveting and disturbing read.
*Guardian*
This book is courageous, disturbing, original and at times
brilliant.
*Simon Barnes*
Richly lyrical and deeply confessional… a triumph of rhapsodic
writing that can lift the heart.
*Radio Times*
A magical portrait
*BBC R4 Midweek*
Extraordinarily vivid and utterly unique…surely destined to be some
of the most talked-about nature writing of the year
*BBC Countryfile Magazine*
Astonishing… brilliantly written
*Radio Times*
Fierce, disturbing and surprising
*Sunday Times*
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