Love Is A Toad Signed & Dedicated Edition
Exploring our relationship with nature
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Publishing:12th Mar '26
£18.99
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A lyrical exploration of our complex and intricate relationship with the natural world in all its muddy, messy and beautiful glory.
'Tender, connected and considered' - Chris Packham
'Luminous' - Freya Bromley
'Extraordinary' - Dr Amir Kahn
'Uplifting, defiant, galvanising' - Sophie Pavelle
Nature makes us feel things.
'Tender, connected and considered' - Chris Packham
'Luminous' - Freya Bromley
'Extraordinary' - Dr Amir Kahn
'Uplifting, defiant, galvanising' - Sophie Pavelle
Nature makes us feel things. It sparks awe, curiosity and a sense of beauty and community. But as wildlife around us declines and disappears, murkier feelings rise up: guilt, detachment and fear for nature's plight. For many years, Lucy Lapwing wrestled with these tangled emotions. So, in an attempt to make sense of this dance between joy and grief, she decided to go on a journey.
In Love Is a Toad, Lucy traverses meadows, bogs and hedgerows with her fellow nature enthusiasts, where she digs down into our relationship with the natural world. Over the course of a year, she meets bucketfuls of wildlife - Blackbird and Oak, slugs and puffballs, waterlilies, Dung Beetles and toads - as she roams across the UK.
From a river swim to wanders through woodlands, with every journey, Lucy explores how nature makes us feel, from wild grief and anger through to soaring joy and indefatigable hope. At once a celebration and an invitation to reflect, Love Is a Toad prods and pokes at our connection to the natural world, exploring its complexity in all its muddiness, messiness and wonder.
'Tender, connected and considered, but also brilliant, bold and brave. Lucy bares her truths, and ours, as she stands up for nature' -- Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
Lucy Lapwing writes about nature the way we actually experience it - messy, moving, funny and deeply human. Love Is a Toad captures the feelings of being outdoors in a way I've rarely read before. It made me slow down, look closer, and feel more. Lucy has an extraordinary gift for turning small encounters into moments of wonder. -- Dr Amir Kahn, author of The Doctor Will See You Now
Uplifting, defiant, galvanising. If anyone can help us see the world as one living, imperfect, astonishing being to hold close it's Lucy and her glorious Love is a Toad. -- Sophie Pavelle, author of To Have or To Hold
A sweet champagne of a book, Love is a Toad is effervescent with love and wonder for the living world. Lapwing welcomes in her readers with prose that conveys the science of her subjects with a seriousness balanced with fun, and leaves us knowing we can all make a difference - and that we must -- Chantal Lyons, author of Groundbreakers
Lucy Lapwing writes with infectious curiosity and tenderness about the natural world. Love Is A Toad beautifully captures the contradictions of loving nature in an age of loss-the joy and the grief, the wonder and the worry. This is a luminous book that reminds us why we care, and why that matters. -- Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year
What a splendid book. Lucy has done something nearly impossible which is to make British nature writing fun. . . I highly recommend reading this if you're in need of laughing out loud at the wonderment and astounding complexity of the world around us and of seeing it through the eyes of someone who truly cares about the future. -- Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, author of Our Oaken Bones
A marvellous celebration of our wildlife here in the UK written by one of our best naturalists! A joy from start to finish -- Hannah Stitfall, presenter and wildlife filmmaker
In Love is a Toad, Lucy has spun a web of whimsical wonder. It is a joy to read - information trickling past your defences until you find yourself far deeper than you imagined going. It is filled with joy, grief, love, and many a squishy bum! -- Hugh Warwick, author of Cull of the Wild
ISBN: 9781785120145-SD
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 40mm
Weight: 600g
352 pages