We're super excited to have BBC presenter Lucy Lapwing here with us for an evening on the 11th of September. Lucy will be in store to discuss her wonderfully joyous new book, 'Love is a Toad: Exploring our Relationship with Nature'
Lucy will also be hosting a Wildlife Walk at 5pm along the Water of Leith. If you are interested in attending the walk we recommend early booking as there are limited spaces. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
More about the book:
'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.'
- Venue : Wild Fungarium
- Date: 11th September
- Doors Open: 6.45pm
- Start Time: 7.00pm
Voucher Options:
Admission + No Book: This voucher includes admission to the event only. This voucher is redeemable against a copy of the featured books. (This is on a first come first serve basis while stock lasts and is only valid up to, and on the day of the event. One book per voucher)
Admission + Book: This voucher includes admission to the event and a copy of the featured book.
You must bring a copy of your 'Order Confirmation' or 'Receipt' as these permit you entry to the event.
