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Where the Hornbeam Grows
- A Journey in Search of a Garden
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
'I loved Beth Lynch's tender, wise meditation on grief, home, and the restorative magic of making a garden' OLIVIA LAING
Out of place and lonely after a relocation to Switzerland, Beth Lynch realises that she needs to get her hands dirty if she is to put down roots. And so she sets about making herself at home in the way she knows best - by tending a garden, growing things. The search for a garden takes her across the country, through meadows and on mountain paths where familiar garden plants run wild, to the rugged hills of the Swiss Jura where she begins to plant her paradise. WHERE THE HORNBEAM GROWS is a memoir about carrying a garden inwardly through loss, dislocation and relocation, about finding a sense of wellbeing in a green place of one's own, and about the limits of paradise in a peopled world. It is a powerful exploration of how, in nurturing a corner of the natural world, we ourselves are nurtured.
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- SparklyTulip
- 26-09-20
A wonderful book ruined
This is a beautifully written book, with a compelling true story and some of the most exquisite descriptive writing I have ever come across. But it is completely ruined by the irritating narration. Please Audible, re-record this with someone who doesn’t read with a faux melancholia and a tone of voice that never alters no matter the subject; doesn’t have an annoying habit of barely finishing sentences audibly and lets the words trail off into a whisper (presumably the narrator feels this adds atmosphere. It doesn’t. It just makes me want to reach out and smack my device); and doesn’t employ a ridiculous over emphasis on any words containing -sh. My advice to anyone considering this is to buy the book and find a willing 6 year old to read it to you. They’d do a better job.
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