How Animals Heal Us

Evocative and heart-warming, this brilliantly researched book is joyful, generous and wise in equal measure, and always written with spirit and flair – John Lister-Kaye, author of ‘At the Water’s Edge: A Walk in the Wild’Marvellous, urgently important and compellingly readable … A surging, deeply resonant hymn to the joys of entanglement with the more-than-human world – Charles Foster, author of ‘Cry of the Wild’Animal magic in Jay Griffiths’s uniquely beautiful voice. Facts have never been so lovingly told – Laline Paull, author of ‘The Bees’Humbling, inspiring, and so beautifully written, this is an utterly compelling exploration of our relationship with animals, and their extraordinary power to heal us – Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green PartyGriffiths’s genius is to reveal the familiar as wondrous, strange, miraculous. Incredible and heart-wrenching, this gift of a book will shift your relationship to animals – Ben Rawlence, author of ‘The Treeline’A book of boundless passion and compassion. As she explores the worlds of animals, Jay Griffiths make the case for a different way of living: a joyous, vital inclusivity. This is how a book should be - genuinely mind-expanding – Tom Bullough, author of ‘Addlands’Deeply researched and highly readable, this is a moving and exquisitely written exploration of how we are shaped by different creatures from tigers to teddy bears – Caroline Eden, author of ‘Samarkand: Recipes and Stories From Central Asia and the Caucasus’In How Animals Heal Us, Jay Griffiths weaves a poetic tapestry of wonders; a searing, soaring manifesto for reviving our vital communion with other creatures – Natalie Lawrence, author of ‘Enchanted Creatures’A revelatory and utterly fascinating book. What comes across through the array of stories and insights drawn from the ethology Griffiths has researched and conveyed so brilliantly is both a sense of wonder and also gratitude: we are fortunate to share our lives with these animals and this moving, inspiring and joyous book powerfully reminds us of this – James Macdonald Lockhart, author of ‘Wild Air’Imagine meeting someone on a train who turns to you and starts telling you the most amazing stories about animals. Each one makes you go “wow!” And she can talk for hours—eloquently, magically. This is Jay Griffiths. Then she puts it all in a wonderful book, and you can return to these tales again and again – David Rothenberg, author of ‘Why Birds Sing’

Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, such as Wild- An Elemental Journey, Kith- The Riddle of the Childscape, Tristimania and Pip Pip- A Sideways Look at Time. She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA; the inaugural Orion award and the Hay Festival International Fellowship. She has broadcast and written widely, on subjects such as Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades, including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture.