a really terrific book. even for one such as myself pretty alergic to nature fiction. The author's identification with his bird protagonist is fabulous.really worth a look.

A fantastic book in the great tradition of nature writing by an author who has the gift to offer us a sensitive story about the life of a bird seen through the hardship and the pleasure of a year ... the story of the bird is also the story of the valley where it lives and the story of the world where we live.

Great. Part of a trilogy. Read em all. Very good at convaying his feeling

Nigel Hinton tells the story of a boy who cannot resist the temptation of trying out a motorbike that has been parked outside a pub with the engine running. The reader feels Ray's fascination as he mounts the bike and goes for his first ride which ends in a fatal accident as he loses control of the bike and runs down an elderly lady (chapter one). It is particularly this chapter that lends itself to EFL-teaching as it is exciting and full of useful vocabulary.