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When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for
the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the
winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests.
Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct?
The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's
online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she
got to grips with these slimy little gastropods. A Slow Passion is
Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts
out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating
her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and
wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the worst
offending snails in a far-off wood, she decides to paint their
shells with nail varnish, just to see what happens. And guess what,
they come back home. This is the beginning of an obsession that
sees the grandmother-turned-scientist prowling about and pouncing
on the snails in her garden, sneaking off on night-time missions to
repatriate bucketloads of painted snails, reading up on the
sex-life of snails (which turns out to be unexpectedly romantic)
and, eventually, sending off the application to a national
competition for home science. With charming illustrations, A Slow
Passion is a sweet, funny and surprising investigation into the
hidden life of snails, which will change the way you look at the
smaller (and slower) things in life.
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