Pre-order now! Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard

Finally available in paperback, Suzanne Simard’s beautiful and gripping memoir of her journey to understanding how plants, fungai, and trees are connected and communicate with one another. She shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees: their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience, all connected by a near-mythic figure: the Mother Tree.

A gripping account of scientific discovery that proves truth really can be stranger than science fiction.

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Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Paperback £10.99
Release date 3/3/22

She was working in the forest service when she first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that nurture their kin and sustain the forest. Though her ground-breaking findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by the data. As her remarkable journey shows us, science is not a realm apart from ordinary life, but deeply connected with our humanity.

In Finding the Mother Tree, she reveals how the complex cycle of forest life - on which we rely for our existence - offers profound lessons about resilience and kinship, and must be preserved before it's too late.

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