`A beautiful book; wise & sharp-eared as its subject`
- Robert Macfarlane` Her softness took my breath away. Deadly beauty. She turned her face towards me. The owl`s massive facial disc produces a funnel for sound that is the most effective in the animal kingdom` Owls have captivated the human imagination for millennia. We have fixated on this night hunter as predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom, something pretty to print on a tote bag or portent of doom. Darlington sets out to tell a new story. Her fieldwork begins with wild encounters in the British Isles & takes her to the frosted borders of the Arctic. In her watching & deep listening to the natural world, she cleaves myth from reality & will change the way you think of this magnificent creature.