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Lucy Jones


Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist based in Hampshire, England. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph, and her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in GQ, BBC Wildlife, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. She is the author of Foxes Unearthed, which won the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award 2015; Losing Eden, which was long-listed for the Wainwright Prize and named a Times and Telegraph book of the year; and Matrescence, ‘a thrilling examination of what it means to be a mother’ (Observer), which has been longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.

Books by Lucy Jones

Matrescence

A revelatory account of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

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Losing Eden

An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face in leaving it behind

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