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My Family and Other Seedlings

A Year on a Dorset Allotment

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By: Lalage Snow
Narrated by: Lally Snow
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 '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.©2024 Lalage Snow (P)2024 Quercus Editions Limited Gardening & Horticulture Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Sustainable & Green Living Village Feel-Good Heartfelt War
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Absolutely loved this audiobook , lovely story about the trials and tribulations, successes and failures of gardening with a very young family . The childhood the author is giving her 3 young seedlings will last with them a lifetime .
What an uplifting story

Very uplifting book

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Beautifully written with fascinating links to the authors experience of life as a war journalist, mother and new allotment holder. I learnt a lot and highly recommend.

A heart-warming read

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