A beautiful book—Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE
Glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds ... The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it—Bel Mooney, DAILY MAIL
Rare, charming and unforgettable ... Her prose has the clarity, poise, precision and transcendent beauty of someone who was brought up reading the classics and knows the joy of finding the right words. Every sentence is perfect—Richard Davenport-Hines, THE OLDIE
Beautifully written—CHOICE magazine
[Richardson] writes...with a poetic lyricism—Eithne Farry, SUNDAY EXPRESS
This exquisite depiction of bird-watching as personal pilgrimage is written with passion, poetry and the freshness of a newcomer: 'the real voyage of discovery consists in...seeing with new eyes'
—THE LADYRichardson is both a looker and a see-er and her open-eyed delight in the beauty around her has an infectious quality enhanced by exquisite writing—Sara Maitland, BBC COUNTRYFILE
[Richardson's] lyrical memoir of a year of birdwatching in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Greece is a life-enhancing record of birds (and books).—DAILY MAIL