Lucy Jones’s impassioned exhortation Losing Eden may feel inevitable and hence almost extraneous. And yet her argument is both urgent and complex.

The book is not really a memoir; it’s about all of us.

Losing Eden takes an attentive look at a particular iteration of our condition under the anthropocene: our disconnect from the living world, and the effect this has on our mental health. In meticulous detail, Jones quests to bring us an impressive array of answers to the question of whether 'nature connection' has a tangible effect on our minds.

This book explores 'how and why nature make(s) us feel good, and [Jones] has more than done her homework.

[A] moving exploration of 'nature as a healing force'.

Despite the sobering nature of her arguments and sometimes elegiac tone, Jones offers glimmers of hope.