RaveLos Angeles Review of Books\"In [the book\'s] attempt at persuasion, Never Home Alone succeeds extravagantly ... Rob Dunn excels [at enticing his reader] in Never Home Alone ... Never Home Alone is a thumping good book that raises alarm and offers reassurance in roughly equal measure. And it is funny ... Never Home Alone is an expert’s exploration of the limits of expertise ... What makes Never Home Alone so compelling is a sense of wonder and delight that encompasses all sorts of creatures and all sorts of science — black mold lurking in drywall, armpit bacteria on the International Space Station, the link between schizophrenia in humans and the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii.\
Rosamund Young
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe book meanders and explores at a bovine pace, and by the end Young carries her point ... She is so persuasive, in fact, that I finished the book wondering whether she, or anyone, should be in the business of raising livestock ... Young writes as if she’s the omniscient narrator of a pasture-based novel ... This passage walks a fine line between touching and laughable. It requires the reader to trust that Young enjoys special access to the mind of the cow, a talent that verges on the occult ... The Secret Life of Cows is deeply felt but not profound.
