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Love From Kew Sophie Shillito

Love From Kew By Sophie Shillito

Love From Kew by Sophie Shillito


$19.99
Condition - Very Good
7 in stock

Summary

Love From Kew is a postbag full of scribbled stories - tiny tales from visitors' lives are entwined with Kew's secrets in an imaginative and beautiful scrapbook of poetic postcard prose that sings with the spirit of the Gardens.

Love From Kew Summary

Love From Kew: A postcard scrapbook by Sophie Shillito

Love From Kew is a postbag full of scribbled stories - tiny tales from visitors' lives are entwined with Kew's secrets in an imaginative and beautiful scrapbook of poetic postcard prose that sings with the spirit of the Gardens. Postcards let us look into lives - their scribbled stories are cryptic, funny and poignant. The everyday is captured in inky messages about birthdays, snow, exams, dancing, and love, written on picture postcards from Kew Gardens. Told with wonder and imagination, author Sophie Shillito entwines these tiny tales with secrets from the landscape which mumble through the turf and whisper in the bushes. Love From Kew offers a fascinating insight into this social anthropology and micro-history, revealing the human need to connect with Kew and the natural world, as well as the importance of communicating with loved ones - two themes that are ever more precious and valued in recent times.

About Sophie Shillito

Sophie Shillito writes about place, palimpsests, and micro-histories. Her first book, All The Little Places (Blue Mark Books, 2020) is a haunting poetic-prose tapestry of fairytale fragments. Sophie lives in London. She likes mudlarking and mountains. www.sophieshillito.com

Additional information

GOR011527564
9781842467329
1842467328
Love From Kew: A postcard scrapbook by Sophie Shillito
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Royal Botanic Gardens
2021-02-14
112
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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