'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new. Nezhukumatathil has written a timely story about love, identity and belonging . We are losing the language and the ability to see and understand the wondrous things around us. And our lives are impoverished by this process . This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder.' - James Rebanks 'An unusual and captivating memoir . Nezhukumatathil exudes a rare zest for life, and her inherent love for the natural world shines through.

World of Wonders is a thing of wonder, the book that most took me by surprise this year' - Jini Reddy, Wainwright Prize-shortlisted author of Wanderland 'A restless search for identity and belonging finds a warm welcome in nature's details. Nezhukumatathil's writing is like coming home.' - Gillian Burke, biologist and presenter of BBC2's Springwatch and Winterwatch 'Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders is the first book to make me feel like a firefly as much as it reminds me I'm still a black boy playing in Central Mississippi woods. The book walks. It sprints. It leaps. Most importantly, the book lingers in a world where power, people, and the literal outside wrestle painfully, beautifully. This book is a world of wonders.

This book is about to shake the Earth.' - Kiese Laymon 'Aimee Nezhukumatathil gives us the world in technicolour. Astonishing nature burgeons all around her as she shows what it means to find wonder in a wilfully dull world' - Katherine May.