Jay Griffiths is the award-winning author of  How Animals Heal Us, Wild: An Elemental Journey and Why Rebel amongst others. She has written for Radiohead and the RSC and for Mark Rylance in a short film 'Almost Invisible Angels'. John Berger noted of her: 'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does.' She is a wild skater, whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.

 

This book uses history, science and Indigenous understanding to demonstrate how animals heal us, from the medicinal qualities of birdsong, the ability of animals to smell cancer, assuage loneliness and act as therapists for the hurt psyche. In this original, revelatory and exuberant book, Jay Griffiths explores how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective, guiding us in how we might create societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder. How Animals Heal Us puts animals at the heart of a restorative vision of health.