A year-in-the-life look at one of Britain's most common but secretive and mysterious natural presences, considering their literary and cultural influence From the bestselling author of The Robin: A BiographyThe wren is a paradox of a bird. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards, poems and rural `wren hunts', still a recent memory in Ireland particularly.
