'We come with our eyes more open and ready to be amazed and exhilarated by sights such as the murmurations of starlings...' Photo: reway2007 / flickr CC.

Rosalind Smith enjoys a celebration of the natural world

Glimpses of Eden

Rosalind Smith enjoys a celebration of the natural world

by Rosalind Smith 19th October 2018

Jonathan Tulloch will be known to many, not only for his novels, which have been serialised on BBC Radio 4, but also for the series of gentle, thought-provoking passages he writes regularly in the ‘Nature Notebook’ in The Times and, probably more amongst Catholics, in The Tablet. Glimpses of Eden: Field notes from the edge of eternity comprises a round-the-year anthology taken from this column and so is divided into the seasons, starting with ‘Winter’.