Darwin by Ruth Padel

RUTH PADEL is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her poetry collections include Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Ruth Padel is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Ruth drew on family memory as well as archival material for this startlingly personal portrait of the celebrated scientist.