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.
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar : A Memoir - Chris Packham
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