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The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden | 
 enlarge | Author: Katherine Swift
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1649
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0747592586
EAN: 9780747592587
ASIN: 0747592586
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Evocative writing June 20, 2008
Mrs. J. Weekes (UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm something of an armchair gardener - all the pleasure and none of the work - and this book satisfied my liking to read about beautiful gardens. Its chapters are titled according to the monastic hours, echoing the house's monastic past. The author created a dreamlike garden out of a field beside her Shropshire house. The book is a description of the genesis of that garden with digressions into history, herbalism, religion and the uses and growing habits of the plants she seeks to cultivate. The writing is brilliantly clear and the garden comes to life as you read. There are line drawings in the style of illustrations from a medieval book of hours, though no photographs, together with a plan of the layout of the garden This is a book to be enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in gardening, history or the spirit of human endeavour. To create such a magnificent garden is truly a labour of love
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