Once in a while a read comes along which transcends all expectations and Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating was just such a book for me. ... Fabulous, a triumph, and it will remain a favourite forever.

Chris Packham

This slim, thoughtful book is a miniature masterpiece.

The Independent

A rich meditation on snails and time and habitation and purpose at a time when all other life was out of reach.

Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

Charming and absorbing.

The Times

Not so much a cure as a self-secreted route to one, while she lay critically ill Elisabeth Bailey's bedside snail exposed the rich sedimentary layers of her awareness and gifted her the will to live. In an unfussy, meticulous style she has written a finely crafted eulogy to a common woodland snail and a moving endorsement of the human spirit.

John Lister-Kaye

If evidence were needed of the healing and enriching power of the natural world, Elisabeth Bailey's passionate, heart-warming and illuminating little book is definitive proof.

Resurgence