Ben Masters: The Flitting
In March 2020, Ben’s father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was never happier than when outdoors, and spent his free time chasing butterflies. Despite his attempts to share this passion with his son, Ben had always been resistant. But as his father spent his final months confined to the house, unable for the first summer of his life to follow the butterfly cycle, Ben became his connection to the outside world.
Blending memoir with nature writing, literary biography and pop-cultural history, this is an absorbing story of loss, grief and butterflies.
Ben is a lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham, and will be in conversation with Matthew Oates, the butterfly expert, naturalist, author and broadcaster.
