Fiona Wood, Wildlife

"I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful."

Fiona Wood, Wildlife

"My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome."

Fiona Wood, Wildlife

"We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say.‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?)"

Fiona Wood, Wildlife

"Mothers are generally starvers or feeders"

Fiona Wood, Wildlife