A deeply absorbing exploration of the ways we mark time. Fascinating and full of beauty

KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering

Most books about time teach you how to control your hours. This one teaches you how to inhabit them. Haynes shows how past generations read the day in flower petals, birdsong, and the slant of light – and what we lost when we stopped. The Fullness of Time is a quietly radical invitation to notice more, rush less and live deeper

DANIEL H. PINK, author of When

Over centuries, we have invited clocks ever deeper into our lives, but they are not the only keepers of time's rhythms. In her sensuous exploration of natural clocks, from flowers and the farmyard to the stars, Cathy Haynes presents a world that is much more than human and ticks just as regularly as our horological machines. This is a deeply attentive view over signs of the time; time – as Haynes chronicles so beautifully – in its fullness. A revelatory and utterly wonderful book

DAVID ROONEY, author of About Time

Immaculately researched and beautifully written, Cathy Haynes resurrects the forgotten alchemy of timekeeping

LARA MAIKLEM, author of Mudlarking

Fascinating and enchanting! Each chapter broadens and lifts our awareness, reminding us that we get to choose where we focus our attention between one dawn and the next

TRISTAN GOOLEY, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

In a moment rife with distractions and too much to do, Cathy Haynes has a well-timed antidote. The Fullness of Time is a warm and insightful guide to the many ways, both subtle and vivid, that we can mark the passage of hours, months, and seasons. She shows us that by opening our senses, we can all discover the rich horological abundances in the world around us. What a simple, yet powerful, gift!

JULI BERWALD, author of Spineless and Life on the Rocks