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Spring Rain

By: Marc Hamer
Narrated by: Matt Addis
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Summary

In Spring Rain, writer and gardener, Marc Hamer, now in his 60s, shares his path to contentment from difficult beginnings. Through the prism of family gardens, he reflects on how we reconcile our childhoods with where we end up as adults.

Growing up in a violent home, as a young boy, Hamer found solace and safety in his small back garden. In particular, in its shed, where he stumbled across an incomplete set of old encylopaedias. These books, and observing the plants and insects in his private kingdom, began his lifelong love of learning and openness to the world.

Throughout his journey from youth to age, which included a period living homeless in the countryside, Hamer has found the answers to life's questions in the nature around him. While building his 'final' garden at his home in Cardiff, he looks back at what he has learned along the way, from his days as a child watching ants, to his later life as a professional gardener creating places of calm and restoration for others.

©2023 Marc Hamer (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing
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'Marc Hamer knows how to live - simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul.' (Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature)
'A wonderful book about our relationship with the earth, with other animals and with our own troubled humanity.' (Max Porter, author of Lanny)
'Wholly original ... on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden.' (Daily Mail)

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