Synopsis
'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times
'I never thought I would see myself in an eel, until I read Svensson’s beautiful book, in which he anthropomorphizes eels and shows how mysterious they are, and how little we know about them. It’s...
Details
13 May 2021256 pages
9781529030709Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The best mysteries are those science hasn’t yet cracked, and top of the list comes the sex life of eels.Melanie Reid, The Times
Extraordinary . . . Such is his skill that the echoes and parallels he finds never seem stretched. It’s as if the eel’s mysteriousness is snaking out, beyond its extraordinary life cycle and uncanny ability to confound scientists, and into the writing.Observer
This beguiling book . . . completely won me over to these astonishing, mysterious creatures . . . Beautifully written, The Gospel of the Eels left me in awe of the animal.Sunday Times ‘Nature Books of the Year’
A gorgeously evocative blend of science, nature writing and family memoirGuardian
