BIRDSPLAINING: A NATURAL HISTORY (PARTHIAN BOOKS) (PB)

A wren in the house foretells a death; a tech-loving parrot aids a woman's recovery; crows' misbehaviour suggests how the 'natural' order, ranked by men, may be challenged. And should the oriole be named 'green' or golden? In pursuit of moments of feeling 'sharply alive' and confronting fear of violence and of the body's betrayals, Birdsplaining is focused unapologetically on the uniqueness of women's experience of nature and the constraints placed upon it. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, it upends familiar ways of seeing the natural world.