TY - BOOK AU - Packham, Chris, TI - Fingers in the sparkle jar: a memoir SN - 9781785033506 AV - QH31 U1 - 508.092 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Ebury Press KW - Packham, Chris, KW - Naturalists KW - Great Britain KW - fast N1 - Originally published: 2016 N2 - An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, Chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds' eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. But pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. Beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you've ever read.- Google Books ER -