Field Notes from a Hidden City

Against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen Woolfson observes the seasons the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. She considers the geographic atmospheric and environmental elements which bring diverse life forms together in close proximity and in absorbing prose writes of the animals among us: the birds the rats and squirrels the spiders and the insects. Her close examination of the natural world leads her to question our prevailing attitudes to urban and non-urban wildlife and to look again at the values we place on the lives of individual species.