Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist, she was Deputy Editor of NME.com and previously at the Daily Telegraph. She won the Society of Author’s Roger Deakin Award for Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain. Her second book, Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need The Wild was published in March 2020 by Allen Lane. It was long-listed for the Wainwright Prize and received a Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust Award. The Times and Telegraph named it a book of the year (2020) and the paperback became a Times’ bestseller (2021). Her third book, co-written with Kenneth Greenway, is called The Nature Seed and is published by Profile Books.
Lucy’s latest book Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood was published by Allen Lane in June 2023 and by Pantheon in the US in May 2024.