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How the mysteries of the eel’s sex life have inspired a bestseller – The Guardian
Swedish author Patrik Svensson tells how the mix of family memoir and nature became a surprise international success
Theres a heron in the book, too, Patrik Svensson calls over after we notice the bird perched in the willow tree under whose arches the writer is being photographed.
In The Gospel of the Eels, the 48-year-old journalists extraordinary, prizewinning book on the worlds most enigmatic fish, such coincidences happen a lot.
The willow he describes in the book the tree under which he fishes at night with his father as a boy reappears in a later chapter in the willow-leaf shape of eels larvae.
The ba…
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