{"product_id":"9781529428872","title":"My Family and Other Seedlings : A Year on a Dorset Allotment","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Snow, Lalage \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/05\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages, 20 b\/w images,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529428872,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43280691265580,"sku":"9781529428872","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529428872.jpg?v=1714637968","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529428872","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}