Review One Day a Thousand Songs

Big thankyou to Charles Moseley for such a heartfelt review – thankyou

A review from author and Cambridge Professor of English, Dr. Charles Moseley. Charles is author of To Everything a Season and To the Eel Island, exploring the people, history and wildlife of Ely, The Fens and East Anglia, where he lives.

One Day a Thousand Songs by John Miller

‘This book is a delight. I shall return to it time and time again, for it is one of those books that grows new subtleties the more you yourself learn to pay attention to that to which your author – your mentor – is pointing. Anyone who loves observing, sympathising (however anthropomorphically!) with the daily drama – sometimes tragedy, sometimes comedy, and both are set to the wild music of birdsong – of the garden, the countryside, and its birds will be grateful for so meticulous and sensitive a chronicler and narrator.

John Miller’s writing more than once made me think of Gilbert White in its observation of the minute, easily missed, detail. His natural, easy style engages you from the first page, and there is much wisdom as well as love in these pages. I wished it longer. I would be proud to have written such a book, and it will have an honoured place on my shelves.