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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
- Author
- Chris Packham
- Narrator
- Chris Packham
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 May 2016
- Run Time
- 8 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 was only at home 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.
Critics Review
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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar is like nothing else I know - a flickering vat of life itself. A brilliant and remarkable book.
Robert Macfarlane
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It’s bold and beautiful, both raw and lyrical, and a rather special book.
Independent
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Incredibly powerful and moving.
Richard E. Grant
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A beautiful, riveting and disturbing read.
Guardian
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This book is courageous, disturbing, original and at times brilliant.
Simon Barnes
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Richly lyrical and deeply confessional… a triumph of rhapsodic writing that can lift the heart.
Radio Times
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A magical portrait
BBC R4 Midweek
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Extraordinarily vivid and utterly unique…surely destined to be some of the most talked-about nature writing of the year
BBC Countryfile Magazine
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Astonishing… brilliantly written
Radio Times
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Fierce, disturbing and surprising
Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- Chris Packham
- Narrator
- Chris Packham
- Duration
- 8 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 May 2016
- ISBN
- 9781473529663
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Animals and society / Animal rights - issues and debates, Zoology and animal sciences, Age groups: children
Synopsis
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 was only at home 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.
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