Lalage Snow
My Family and Other Seedlings: A Year on a Dorset Allotment
My Family and Other Seedlings: A Year on a Dorset Allotment
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Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children and decided to rent an allotment, despite having only a rudimentary knowledge of gardening. This is a heart-warming, wry, and at times tearful account of her travails as a mother and novice allotment holder, counterpointing horticultural progress with the perils of parenting. 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.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
A tender yet substantive family memoir
Sunday Independent
A few years ago, Lally Snow relocated to a Dorset village with her husband and three young children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent, and filmmaker residing in Kabul. She covered the conflict in Kabul as well as other wars in Gaza, 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.
Weight: 582g
Dimension: 240 x 165 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529428872
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