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NIGHT OWL

In After Dark, you mention being given a bat detector and registering a bat through it as ‘the moment this book was born’. Tell us about that.

I’ve always loved the night, but as you grow up and become an adult, life becomes busy and you forget those lovely moments you had as a child in nature. One evening, I had

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