Birdsong in a Time of Silence : Particular Books : 9780241493007 : 0241493005 : 04 Mar 2021 : We Recommend Lovatt's descriptions of our common garden birds are uncanny in their precision and a thorough delight. The natural and human world are rejoin within these pages, marking the first months of Covid-19 as a period of reawakening. Most of all, Lovatt champions the healing nature of birdsong, encouraging us all to look and listen more closely than before. - STEPHEN, BLACKWELL'S BOOKSELLER ________________________________________________________ A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. "At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always 'on manoeuvres', and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush" As the world went silent in lockdown, something els