Highly Commended For The Wainwright Prize For Nature Writing 2024shortlisted For The Indie Book Awards 2025longlisted For The Jhalak Prize 2025'an Invigorating Cross-pollination Of Memoir And Natural History, Both Beautifully Phrased And Delicately Structured - This Book Deserves Your Time And Attention' Cal Flyn, Author Of Islands Of Abandonmentborn In Canada To A Taiwanese Mother And A Welsh Father, Jessica J. Lee Is A Perfectly Placed Observer Of Our World In Dispersals, She Examines The Echoes And Counterpoints In The Migration Of Plants And People - And The Language We Use To Describe Them. Combining Memoir, History And Scientific Research, Lee Questions How Both Plants And People Come To Belong - Or Not - And Reveals How All Our Futures Are More Entwined Than We Might Imagine.'contemplative, Elegant' New Statesman'at Once Expansive And Intimate, And Most Of All, Gorgeously Written.