Praise for Jackie Higgins

“Jackie Higgins’s lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths.” —Richard Dawkins

“Lyrical and lucid . . . Higgins makes popular science accessible.” —Observer

“Higgins skilfully connects... tales from the natural world to the experiences of people with an exceptional sensory repertoire.” —Barbara J. King

Praise for Sentient

“[A] masterpiece of science and nature writing.” —Washington Post

“Illuminating . . . an extraordinary book.” —The Wall Street Journal

"Sentient is a revelatory book. Exploring animals' beyond-human senses opens to us whole new realms of experience. Thank you, Jackie Higgins, for enlarging our understanding of what the world looks, feels, tastes, and smells like." —Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus

“For all that it’s stuffed with entertaining oddities, Sentient is not a book about oddities, and Higgins’s argument, although colorful, is rigorous and focused. She leads us to adopt an entirely unfamiliar way of thinking about the senses.” —The Times (London)

“In an authoritative and captivating tone, Higgins provides numerous entertaining lessons regarding how information gained from animals can be applied to humans. . . . An appealingly written, enlightening, and sometimes eerie journey into the extraordinary possibilities for the human senses.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“Elucidated with scientific fluency and narrative verve . . . Higgins’ in-depth tour of the senses recalibrates our sense of ourselves, other species, and the singular miracle of life.” —Booklist (starred review)

“[An] eminently entertaining look at the natural world . . . a moving and perspective-shifting examination of ‘the everyday miracle of being sentient.’” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)