How Animals Heal Us

Pleasingly unpredictable, deeply researched and highly readable, this is a moving and exquisitely written exploration of how we live with, and are shaped by, different creatures from tigers to teddy bears -- Caroline Eden, author of 'Samarkand: Recipes and Stories From Central Asia and the Caucasus'
A wild and vital treasure trove of stories, woven together with Griffiths' characteristic exuberance and her joyfully untamed mind -- Helen Jukes, author of 'A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings'
Griffiths's genius is to reveal the familiar as wondrous, strange, miraculous. Packed with incredible facts and heart-wrenching tales, this gift of a book will shift your relationship to animals. You'll never look at your pet in the same way again -- Ben Rawlence, author of 'The Treeline'
A book of boundless passion and compassion. As she explores the worlds of animals, Jay Griffiths make the case for a different way of living: a joyous, vital inclusivity. This is how a book should be - genuinely mind-expanding -- Tom Bullough, author of 'Addlands'
Evocative and heart-warming, this brilliantly researched bookis joyful, generous and wise in equal measure, and always written with spirit and flair -- John Lister-Kaye
Expansive, immersive, tender and poignant. Jay Griffiths forensically reveals the layers and depths of the human-animal bond, the imperative for sensitivity and attention to the animal realm around us, and why humanity must change direction as deftly as a swift to ensure our health and wellbeing. An absorbing and thought-provoking read -- Dr Sean Wensley, author of 'Through A Vet's Eyes'
Griffiths has done it again. Done it as no one else can. A surging, deeply resonant hymn to the joys of entanglement with the more-than-human world; a pharmacopoeia of fur, feather and scale; a shrewd, funny, tender, downright clever mapping of the human soul; a celebration of the potency of relationship; a prescription that can heal and save, if we’ll take it, and an astringent political antiseptic. Literally marvellous, urgently important and compellingly readable -- Charles Foster, author of 'Cry of the Wild'
A revelatory and utterly fascinating book. What comes across through the array of stories and insights drawn from the ethology Griffiths has researched and conveyed so brilliantly is both a sense of wonder and also gratitude: we are fortunate to share our lives with these animals and this moving, inspiring and joyous book powerfully reminds us of this -- James Macdonald Lockhart, author of 'Wild Air'
Jay Griffiths helped redefine activism for a generation, combining detailed research with a poet’s flair for language. Her works defy categorisation and fizz with original ideas and excitement * Byline Times *
Humans can never get enough of animals. We know they are just like us, and also completely different. Now imagine meeting someone on a train who turns to you and starts telling you the most amazing stories about animals. Each one makes you go “wow!” And she can talk for hours—eloquently, magically. This is Jay Griffiths. Then she puts it all in a wonderful book, and you can return to these tales again and again. If animals can’t heal us, I don’t know what can -- David Rothenberg, author of 'Secret Sound of Ponds' and 'Nightingales in Berlin'