This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things... Late Light is the story of
Michael Malay's own journey an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and
finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing
natural history with memoir this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours in all
their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors the
hope they inspire in us and the joy they might still hold for our children. Late Light is
about migration belonging and extinction. Through the close examination of four particular
'unloved' animals - eels moths crickets and mussels - Michael Malay tells the story of the
economic political and cultural events that have shaped the modern landscape of Britain. For
readers of Robert Macfarlane Raynor Winn and Helen Macdonald Late Light is a rich blend of
memoir natural history nature writing and a meditation on being and belonging from a
vibrant new voice.
