The New Eden: Wildlife in the city, and discovering our shared home

Original, profound and wise, this book is rich with knowledge and vitality -- Jay Griffiths, author of HOW ANIMALS HEAL US JC Niala skilfully and tenderly weaves together history, memory, and ecology into a beautifully expansive act of care, reminding us that 'if nature keeps reaching for the light through the cracks in the pavement, then so can we' . . . An inspiring and important book. -- Victoria Bennett, author of ALL MY WILD MOTHERS, and curator of the Wild Women Writers’ Salons The New Eden illustrates how we are all integral and entangled, and each of us with the capacity for something better, as we develop a more cohesive understanding of the natural world, and our role within it. -- Louise Kenward, editor of MOVING MOUNTAINS Seamlessly combines the intricacies of the personal with an overarching world view of a natural world that is all around us - a love letter to nature but not the kind seen at a distance, but that which exists in kissing distance. -- Natasha Carthew, author of UNDERCURRENT Profound, joyful, quietly radical and moving, The New Eden challenges the colonial inheritance of what it means to belong to and care for the earth we are all born onto, and turns us in a new and hopeful direction. -- Nicola Chester, author of ON GALLOWS DOWN The New Eden is both wonderfully lyrical and precise, woven with poetic encounters and feminist narratives of resistance. It reminds us that 'nature will thrive in the most unexpected places,' and that the divide between what we perceive as wild and urban is porous, with nature achieving a harmonious balance that is also reflected in Niala's stunning writing itself. -- Alycia Pirmohamed, poet