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Sarah Sands – The Hedgehog Diaries
March 21, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Price: £12.50
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
Sarah Sands’ moving and deeply personal book is a testament to the solace that can be found in the natural world; and why it is so important that we protect it.
It is the Winter Solstice and Sarah sits by her father’s bedside, bracing herself for loss. What her father needs to do, she thinks, is conserve his energy – to curl up and hibernate like a hedgehog in its bed of leaves.
A few days earlier, Sarah and her grandson had found an ailing hedgehog in the garden and taken it to the local hedgehog sanctuary. They named her Peggy, and her fate had become a matter of pressing concern. When death looms, it’s easier to talk about hedgehogs…
For Sarah Sands, our failure to protect them is a symptom of our alienation from the living world. But all is not lost. In this charming, idiosyncratic book, she explores the meaning and morals of hedgehogs, and finds, in hedgehog world, a source of deep solace and wisdom.
Sarah Sands lives in Norfolk and London. In between editing two newspapers, Reader’s Digest, and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, she has written three novels and an acclaimed work of non-fiction ‘The Interior Silence’ (2021).
