The Secret Life of the Owl

Title: The Secret Life of the Owl  Writer: John Lewis-Stempel Publishing House:  Doubleday Date of Publication:  October 19th 2017 Rating: 5 stars “Owls, then, are Other. They are beyond the pale of light, civilization, goodness. When the medieval English needed a neologism for the crime of midnight, smuggling of wool fleeces to France, what did they offend? ‘Owling’. “  I don’t…