'A stunning record of inheritance, memory and belonging . . . In Lee's writing, you feel the radical potential of the essay form; at once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life' (Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water)

'Profound, poetic, illuminating and moving, Dispersals' deep knowledge, sensitivity and research (worn so lightly) addresses just how entwined our fortunes, migration and language are with plants; how much we are part of nature. Important and vivid' (Nicola Chester, author of On Gallows Down)

'A beautiful book about belonging—plant and human. A work that will make you look at the orange in your hand, the moss underfoot, the tea that you sip a little more closely. Lee turns her careful gaze to the easy stories we tell ourselves about foreign and native, and leaves us with a vision of the world simultaneously more nuanced and more precious' (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days)

'Dispersals is a beautifully written and complex book . . . [Lee] shows us with stunning prose, tenderness and precision the unexpected ways that we all connect and are connected by the plants around us' (Amanda Thomson, author of Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home)