Description
| Product ID: | 9780141989624 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Grassling |
| Authors: | Author: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, The countryside, country life: general interest, The countryside, country life, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing. Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away. ''Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself'' Bernardine Evaristo |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-23 |
