Metamorphosis : A Natural and Human History by Oren Harman Ann MacDougall living alone in

Ann MacDougall living alone in her dark cave on North Uist

and yet a stronger and more cohesive community than most of us can now imagine

eager to seem normal

and Goat each with their own dreams and worries

Metamorphosis : A Natural and Human History by Oren Harman Ann MacDougall living alone inMetamorphosis has always been one of biology's greatest wonders and toughest riddles. To emerge a butterfly, a caterpillar dissolves inside its chrysalis and builds a brand new brain, wings and legs. Why all this destruction and remodelling? Why all this wasted energy and time? Oren Harman beautifully unfurls the untold story of metamorphosis across two millennia, asking why it has obsessed and inspired us so profoundly. Along the way we meet poets,