Woman of the Week: Esther Woolfson

Esther Woolfson is a brilliant writer. She's WOTW because I'm currently reading her new book Corvus: a Life With Birds - it's an utter delight and all animal lovers everywhere should read it. Really. It's like My Family and Other Animals but a million times better written. Esther is a fantastically clever woman and a prize-winning master of the English language (she also speaks Chinese and, erm, bird). Alongside her own family (who sound awesome) she also raised a menagerie of birds, rats and rabbits in her large Scottish home. I'm going to read everything she ever wrote. Now. Excuse me.