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Voted the UK's Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary,Asperger's and Me Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, Chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds' eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. But pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't understand him. Beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you've ever read.… (more)
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I’m a couple of years younger than Chris Packham, so I recognised a lot of the references to late sixties and early seventies culture; the sweets, toys and TV programmes. But his intense interest in biology and the natural
This interest is illustrated by a patchwork of word portraits, which bob back and forth through Packham’s life, to allow you to glimpse how he lived. Fragments of his experience, which you can put together to piece together his motivations.
As he puts it: “It’s actually just about never actually achieving anything. It’s all about the trying, the striving, the grinding on towards getting a little bit better. In truth I suppose it’s not really about winning at all, it’s about not giving up”
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