Field Notes from the Edge

Paul Evans’s important new book is the first indisputable classic of twenty-first-century nature writing…A masterpiece

Jim Perrin, author of West

A wonderfully original book…Evans has a superb eye, a fine ear for all kinds of speech, a love of droll reality and a lyrical sense of all life...a joy.

Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood

Stunning, thoughtful and closely observed…the sort of writing that compels you to go outdoors and re-experience the world

Gerard Woodward, author of I’ll Go to Bed at Noon

The best account I know of how it goes with our wilds...[a] deeply loveable book

Tim Dee, author of Four Fields

Paul Evans [is] a rare original...with his mastery of otherwise unseen moments of life on earth

Maggie Gee, author of My Animal Life

Field Notes from the Edge's magic lies partly in the sheer quality of the prose, partly in Evans’ ability to loop together disparate threads[...] a profoundly satisfying read.

Melissa Harrison, Financial Times

This lyrical prose makes the reader itch to get out into nature...Ultimately, Evans draws on the past to confront our present and ask what kind of future might be possible

Independent

First rate

Country Walking

Great sadness, interest and beauty...a very worthwhile read

The Lady

A strange, wonderful, maudlin, meditative and romantic book. A book of great sensorial qualities, deeply stratified...I urge it upon you.

Neil Sentance, Caught by the River

Beautifully observed field notes from a fine writer

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Evans seeks an intimacy in his language....We have been in the company of a master

Resurgence and Ecologist magazine