The Snow Geese
06 March 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PRize
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize
I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring.
One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to...
Details
06 March 2025272 pages
9781035065233Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Why are we drawn to birds, to landscape, to nature? It is for the sense of wonder - and in capturing that sense of wonder, Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need itSunday Telegraph
The Snow Geese moved me as have few other recent books. No one who reads it is likely to continue to look at the world in the same wayTimes Literary Supplement
A beautifully solitary and beautifully reflective bookEvening Standard
The descriptions of the geese and their environment are jaw-droppingly beautiful. But Fiennes' most remarkable talent is for describing the quotidian with such freshness that it is like seeing the world for the first timeMail on Sunday
