"Just gorgeous! Join busy parents and owlets in this warm and fascinating introduction to a set of tawny owls living in the place they call home in Cumbria."
A wonderful and inspiring insight into the tawny owls living alongside the author at her home in Grasmere, Cumbria. Slipping from her house and into the surrounding countryside, Polly Atkin locates and then falls in love with her feathered neighbours. I felt as though I learned so much more than I was expecting by walking alongside the author. She is warm and friendly, compassionate and knowledgeable, and due to her willingness to slow down, pay attention, listen and learn, she takes you on the most fascinating journey. She has the ability to write the owls onto the page, so you can picture them in your minds eye. She encourages you to join in, to step outside into the night and send your awareness out into the world. This lovely book isn’t just an introduction to her neighbouring owls, it’s also about our capacity for companionship, understanding our need for peace, and bridging the widening gap between humanity and the natural world around us. This book just had to be a Liz Pick of the Month and a LoveReading Star Book. Stimulating and heartening, The Company of Owls is a highly recommended step into the secrets of the tawny owl.
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Share in the company of owls in this nocturnal love song… From the author of Some of Us Just Fall, longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
In the woods above Polly Atkin's home in Grasmere, Cumbria live the tawny owls she calls her neighbours. Each night, they come down to her cottage at dusk, calling out as night falls - in particular a trio of owlets she watches grow from fledglings to young adults.
As the antics of the owl siblings develop - their capacity to play, to bicker, to share and to protect - they encourage her to think differently about some of the big needs of all our lives: solitude and companionship, care and belonging, rest and retreat. And into the frame step questions about all sorts of relationships, from how we feel when in darkness to the homes and connection we so desperately seek.
The Company Of Owls is a love song to these incredible creatures, and a reflection on what makes them, and us, unique. It's a call to find joy in unexpected places and times. It is a lesson in learning to listen - to really listen - when all around us seems clamour and noise.
The Company of Owls features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Mind, body, spirit, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest
The Company of Owls is available in Hardback, Paperback
The Company of Owls was written by Polly Atkin and published by Elliott & Thompson
The Company of Owls has 224 pages
£9.89
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