Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society Writers' Prize' No one writes more movingly or with such transporting poetic skill about encounters with wild creatures Its pages course with sympathy humility & wisdom' Helen Macdonald author of H is for Hawk From his home deep in a Scottish glen John Lister-Kaye has watched & come to understand intimately the movements & habits of the animals & in particular the birds that inhabit the wild & magnificent Highlands Drawing on a lifetime of observation Gods of the Morning is his wise & affectionate celebration of the British countryside & the birds that come & go through the year It is also a lyrical reminder of the relationship we have lost with the seasons & a call to look afresh at the natural world around us