Upstairs Neighbours

About this book

Look up. Somewhere above the traffic, on a ledge, under a roof tile, inside a chimney or on a flat roof covered in gravel, a wild animal is raising its young. Our cities are full of upstairs neighbours, and most of us have never met them. In Upstairs Neighbours, nature writer Brynn Halloway climbs the city, in her binoculars at least, from the street to the skyline. She shows why a city looks like a cliff to a bird, and follows the falcon that laid its eggs on the twentieth floor of a Montreal office building in the 1930s, the pesticide that wiped peregrines from half a continent, and the comeback that has put them back on the bridges and towers of New York and London.