Feral Borough - Meryl Pugh

A beautiful, pondering book about home. And amazingly it’s about our home!

Local poet and writer Meryl Pugh records the fauna and flora of Leytonstone with a lyrical prose - representing our little edge of the city so perfectly. (There’s shout outs for our parakeets, red kites and an escaped boa constrictor on the high road too!)

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“In this subtle, captivating book - part herbarium, part bestiary and part memoir - Pugh explores the effects of loss, and lockdown, on human well-being, conjuring the local urban environment as a site for healing and connection.”