Daisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel Hunters in the Snow received the Somerset Maugham Award and a '5 under 35' honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire, where she was born.
'With a voice that is both intimate and richly imaginative,
[Hildyard] draws on sources spanning biology, ecology, literature,
and sociology to illustrate the seeming paradox of human existence:
that humans act individually and globally at once - that we act
both in and on the world around us ... Hildyard's book is a
powerful exploration of how every human is both a singular being as
well as one of many in the world.' - Publishers' Weekly
'Another creature's experience is different, and we do not know how
it is different", writes Daisy Hildyard in The Second Body. This
playful and original essay touches on the limits of our ability to
imagine that experience. Hildyard, a novelist who was trained as a
historian of science, tries to find the ways we intuit boundaries
between our bodies and our ecosystems, between ourselves and other
animals.' - Jennie Erin Smith, Times Literary Supplement
'These are fretful, questioning essays with occasional flashes of
beauty, demanding of readers that they think about anthropogenic
disruption of climate and ecology.' - Gavin Francis, Guardian
'Part amateur detective, part visionary, Hildyard's voice is so
intelligent, beguiling and important. Like Sir Thomas Browne or
even Annie Dillard, her sly variety of scientific inquiry is
incandescent.' - Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors
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