Today marks the release of The Butterfly Season by Lea Korsgaard in the United Kingdom!
With her book about butterflies, Lea Korsgaard re-enchants the world. It’s a book about chasing butterflies, but it’s just as much a book about the meaning of life – and a wonderful defense of an endangered nature.
– Information, Denmark
In the darkness of winter on the first day of the year, Lea Korsgaard is making a list. She has set out to see all Danish butterfly species in a single year. She knows nothing about butterflies. She doesn’t know why she wants to see them. She just knows that something is calling her. It’s like a pull.
The list of butterflies takes her to landscapes she never knew existed, shaped by the wind and by the sea. She walks on ancient seabeds and hills made of algae shells. She is led to secret places by people who offer their help. The quest also leads into the world of books, philosophy and mythology. Because ever since humans started thinking about the meaning of life and death, the butterfly has symbolized the hope of rebirth—and confronted us with the biggest questions of existence: Why do we live? And what are we living for?
