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Author | : Katherine Swift |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0802779808 |
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Nobody writes about the garden like the English. And few in England have ever been as eloquent or astute as Katherine Swift. Some twenty years ago, she and her husband leased a house in the town of Morville, in Shropshire, whose garden became her passion. Driven to uncover its history, she takes readers on a journey through time, back to the forces that shaped the garden, linking the stories of those who lived in the house and tended the same red soil with her family's own. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours is also deeply personal, a journey through the seasons, but also one of self-exploration, of finding one's place in the world and putting down roots. The Morville Hours takes the form of the medieval Books of Hours, recalling the monastic past of the house. Each chapter is named after one of the Hours of the Divine Office, and summons vividly to life an hour of the day or night--from the crunch of grass underfoot at midnight on a frosty New Year's Eve to a perfumed May Day morning when the whole world seems sixteen again; from the enervating heat of a midsummer noon to the bloom of blue-black damsons picked on a golden September afternoon. Together, they describe the arc of the gardening year, and the arc of life.
Author | : Katherine Swift |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1408811170 |
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One of the most admired gardening writers of her generation, Katherine Swift returns to describe a year in the life of her garden she created over twenty years in the grounds of the Dower House at Morville, Shropshire, meditating on everything from the terrain and its history, to the plants and trees, and the odd habits of the animals and humans who inhabit the garden. Following the turning wheel of the Morville seasons, from the green shoots of spring, through summer and autumn, to the stark beauty of winter, and back to spring again, The Morville Year is a journal full of surprises and enchantments that will appeal not only to gardeners, but to all who enjoy the natural world.
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Release | : 2016-03-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781408820124 |
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Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811213462 |
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Author | : Katherine Swift |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011-01-17 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1408821311 |
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_______________ 'The Morville Hours is the most beautiful book I have read in years' - Nigel Slater 'A truly remarkable book that is both intimate and universal. We are left with a renewed sense of what it is to be human' - Daily Telegraph 'This is gardening writing at its best. Swift's prose brings the garden alive in all its details, scents and meaning ... Evocative, heartfelt and magical' - Guardian _______________ In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's place in the world and putting down roots.
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Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-02-06 |
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ISBN | : 1608197956 |
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Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-09-05 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1408810069 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
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ISBN | : 9780692225585 |
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