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  • Rewilding a Life
  • By: Alice Vincent
  • Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
  • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Rootbound

By: Alice Vincent
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Summary

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. Twenty years later, living in a tiny flat in South London, that childhood in the garden feels like a dream. 

When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, living out of a suitcase and yearning for the comfort of home, Alice starts to plant seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her new space with green, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life.

Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.

©2020 Alice Vincent (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd

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Thoughtful, informative and beautifully written

Can’t recommend this enough, beautifully written, honest and informative. The performance is lovely too and seems to match the authors writing perfectly.

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Simply amazing

This is just an amazing book, from start to finish. The way it is written, what it is written, it is a joy!

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Dripping with privilege

Having read Why Women Grow and being enchanted, I looked to see what else Alice Vincent had written. Uncovering Rootbound, I was looking forward to another well-written journey through her connection to nature, the garden and earth.

However Rootbound is everything we hate about entitled 20-somethings. Dripping with privilege this “journey” is a horrible penning of entitlement and is wholly un-relatable. Avoid unless you want to be infuriated.

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Excellence, thought provoking.

Well narrated, thought provoking book and different to the masses. Great for gardening enthusiasts but also for those who don’t garden (yet !).

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