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My Family and Other Seedlings lydbok
296,-
'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent
'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The Field
A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq.
In the late winter of 2021-…
Lydbok
296,-
Undertittel
A Year on a Dorset Allotment
Forlag
Quercus
Utgitt
19 februar 2025
Lengde
9:37
Sjanger
Natur og dyr, Hus og hage, Historie, Biografier, Dokumentar og fakta, Hobby og fritid
Språk
English
Format
mp3
DRM-beskyttelse
App-only
ISBN
9781529428896
'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent
'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The Field
A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq.
In the late winter of 2021-22, Lally decided to rent an allotment, despite having only a rudimentary knowledge of gardening. She was starting from scratch and setting herself the dual challenge of growing an allotment at the same time as growing a family.
This is a heart-warming, wry and at times tearful account of Lally's travails as a mother and novice allotment holder, counterpointing horticultural progress with the perils of parenting. Along the way she reflects on the drudgery of English rural domesticity after a professional life chasing war and adventure, the history of the allotment since Saxon times, and the wonderful moment when gardening becomes fun rather than just feeding a family.
'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The Field
A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq.
In the late winter of 2021-22, Lally decided to rent an allotment, despite having only a rudimentary knowledge of gardening. She was starting from scratch and setting herself the dual challenge of growing an allotment at the same time as growing a family.
This is a heart-warming, wry and at times tearful account of Lally's travails as a mother and novice allotment holder, counterpointing horticultural progress with the perils of parenting. Along the way she reflects on the drudgery of English rural domesticity after a professional life chasing war and adventure, the history of the allotment since Saxon times, and the wonderful moment when gardening becomes fun rather than just feeding a family.
