Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

A beautifully told, deeply personal growing-up memoir from the BBC presenter about life, death, love and nature. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt happy in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyrical, and emotionally exposing mem...