How Animals Heal Us

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, author of 'At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild'
Marvellous, urgently important and compellingly readable . . . A surging, deeply resonant hymn to the joys of entanglement with the more-than-human world -- Charles Foster, author of 'Cry of the Wild'
Animal magic in Jay Griffiths’s uniquely beautiful voice. Facts have never been so lovingly told -- Laline Paull, author of 'The Bees'
Humbling, inspiring, and so beautifully written, this is an utterly compelling exploration of our relationship with animals, and their extraordinary power to heal us -- Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party
Griffiths’s genius is to reveal the familiar as wondrous, strange, miraculous. Incredible and heart-wrenching, this gift of a book will shift your relationship to animals -- Ben Rawlence, author of 'The Treeline'
Reading Jay’s book is like reading a pure praise poem to the more than human world, a poem filled with love, respect and joy. It thrums with wit, wisdom, understanding and research. But mostly the joy of being connected to life, from the smallest insect to the great whales -- Jackie Morris, 'The Lost Words'
Exuberant, playful, and deeply inspirational . . . Jay Griffiths offers a refreshing vision of how animals heal us . . . A wonderful read * Psychology Today *
From life-saving pot-bellied pigs to cancer-detecting dogs, animals have a deep capacity to protect or heal us . . . Drawing on science, historic records and indigenous knowledge, this book looks closer at this fascinating topic * Woman's Own Magazine *
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'
Griffiths channels her customary compassion and wisdom and draws on science, history and indigenous knowledge to present myriad evidence that animals actually do heal us. And, remarkably, this is not just a book about how they heal loneliness, alleviate trauma, fear and depression in human individuals; from wolves that teach ethics to the collective decisions of bees, it is also about how animals can guide us in creating societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder * The Bookseller *