The Butterfly Season

Lea Korsgaard’s book is one of those books that makes the world richer

Kristeligt Dagblad

Detailed, sensory, precise ... she is childishly enthusiastic, and it is contagious. When she describes her hunt for butterflies, it’s almost like reading a crime novel (it’s strangely exciting to see if she finds them!). But it’s also like reading a love story (it’s strangely moving when she does!)

Politiken

Lea Korsgaard’s tantalizing butterfly annals turn disciplined insect hunting into an interpretation of existence … The Butterfly Season is continuously illustrated with the author’s own fine butterfly drawings, is an excellent and extremely well-composed book, first-class literary journalism

Weekendavisen

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

You don’t have to share her view of nature and the world in detail to be hooked. Her good writing is the kind that happens when the beautifully nerdy unfolds. It’s about passion, which in a way is its own purpose, but which always, when managed with, well, passion, becomes so much more. Lea Korsgaard’s account of her inner and outer journeys becomes one of those books that makes the world a little bigger. Even when it’s about the smallest of things

Berlingske

The book manages to combine nature observation, personal development, and existential reflections in a way that speaks to both the head and the heart. It invites the reader to see the world—and the butterflies in it—with renewed awareness and wonder

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