Sparky: my barn owl story by Tracey Iceton

My enormous thanks to Tracey Iceton for sending me a copy of Sparky: my barn owl story in return for an honest review. It’s my pleasure to share that review today. Published by Cinnamon on 11th May 2026, Sparky is available for purchase here. Sparky Hatched in the UK in August 2017, Sparky is a captive-bred barn owl. Raised by humans, living with them, she accepts them as essential to her life, benefiting from the security they can provide, but suffering under the uncertainty they can inflict. And here, thanks to her current human, t-raay-cee, Sparky recounts her unique story. By turn heart warming and disturbing, Sparky offers an owl’s-eye view of her relationship with her human mates and her search for a special human to bond with lifelong. A mesmerising and ambitious work that crosses genres and raises important questions about how we connect deeply with the more-than-human world. My Review of Sparky The relationship between barn owl Sparky and humans. What a wonderful book. I knew there would be considerable natural history interest for me between the covers of Sparky, but I hadn’t anticipated the wonderful craft of writing Tracey Iceton displays. Her prose is mesmerising, freq...