A Prickly Affair
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988184
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

A Prickly Affair

My Life with Hedgehogs

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Reissued with a new epilogue, this study of hedgehogs remains as fresh and entertaining as ever

Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny, charming creature of the countryside.

Carrying its secrets beneath patterned spinesand roaming our fields, parks and gardens, why is it that the hedgehog fascinates so many of us? In A Prickly Affair, Hugh Warwick - life member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society - explores the quirky humour, misunderstanding and affection that characterises our feelings for this marvellous beast, going all out to explain the charm of the hedgehog.

Although hedgehog psychics and the International Hedgehog Olympics may be too much even for him...
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988184
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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Hugh Warwick

Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. He is the author of A Prickly Affair and The Beauty in the Beast and Hedgehog, a monograph. Hugh has studied hedgehogs, off and on, for over 30 years, spending months radio-tracking them around the West Country and Scotland. He is a spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and appears regularly in the media talking about wildlife and the environment. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.

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