Earthed by Rebecca Schiller

Earthed by Rebecca Schiller

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Zusammenfassung

A courageous memoir for our uncertain times: Earthed is a story of the power of place to transform us, of dreams and nightmares on the land and of living in an unfamiliar world and a volatile mind.

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Earthed by Rebecca Schiller

In 2017, Rebecca Schiller turned fantasy to reality and moved her family to a countryside smallholding for a life of sowing and growing. But as the first few years go by, and the ever-expanding list of tasks builds to a cacophony, it becomes clear that this is not going to be simple. Another January comes in, and with it the threat of a mental health crisis, and so Rebecca turns to the garden where she has made her home, and to the women of this place's past. Here, she stumbles on a wild space of imaginative leaps, where she begins to uncover the hidden layers of her plot's history - and of herself. The ground under Rebecca's boots offers hard lessons as the seasons shift, delivering unflinching glimpses of damage done to peoples and the planet and regular defeats in her battle with the slugs. Yet as the New Year returns, carrying a life-changing diagnosis and then a global pandemic, Rebecca begins to move forwards with hope: the small holding has become her anchor, her teacher and her family's shelter. Because when we find ourselves in an unknown land, we all need something small to hold on to and a way to keep ourselves earthed.

‘A lyrical journey through nature and the human heartInspiring.’ – Sarah Langford, author of In Your Defence


'Entwining strands of memoir, fiction, history and gardening, Earthed is outwardly a journey through a year of a Kentish plot, but it's also an inward journey though an unravelling mind... Eloquent... finely observed... tender.' Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine

Rebecca Schiller is a writer, journalist and the author of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan (Penguin Life) and Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter. She is cofounder and trustee of the human rights charity Birthrights and a regular contributor to the Guardian. Rebecca and her family raise a motley crew of goats, geese, ducks and chickens. They work their small plot to grow vegetables, fruit and flowers and restore wildlife to the land.
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ISBN 13 9781783965496
ISBN 10 1783965495
Titel Earthed
Autor Rebecca Schiller
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Elliott & Thompson Limited
Erscheinungsjahr 2021-05-06
Seitenanzahl 304
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