Description: The Second Body is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.
Brief description:
Daisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel Hunters in the Snow received the Somerset Maugham Award and a '5 under 35' honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire, where she was born.
Review Quotes:
'With a voice that is both intimate and richly imaginative, [Hildyard] draws on sources spanning biology, ecology, literature, and sociology to illustrate the seeming paradox of human existence: that humans act individually and globally at once - that we act both in and on the world around us. ... Hildyard's book is a powerful exploration of how every human is both a singular being as well as one of many in the world.'
-- Publishers' Weekly