Elisabeth Tova Bailey talks about The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating

When I heard of The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey ,(that's her portrait above), I was instantly fascinated. I knew what you could learn from a relationship with any sort of animal (I had a pet tortoise for 20 years, and he saved my life on a regular basis), and the book sounded completely wonderful. It is, and I've already bought a few copies to give as gifts to prove it. A meditation on illness, it's really, to me, a book about noticing life, about realizing the...