Spring Rain

A wise and life-affirming memoir about how gardens can help us heal

Spring Rain
Marc Hamer
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Hardback
h204 x 138mm - 240pg
2 Feb 2023 UK
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9781787303317
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A life-affirming memoir about gardens and what they mean to us from childhood to old age, the joy we can find in ordinary things and our place in nature. In Tales of Spring Rain- A Memoir through Family Gardens, writer and professional gardener, Marc Hamer, considers age and contentment and how we reconcile our sense of ourselves as children with where we have ended up as adults. Alternate chapters follow him as a child and his current life as a 65 year old and what home gardens have meant to both. He weaves practical gardening knowledge through these two meditative memoir strands as he describes the planning and planting of his new small garden near Cardiff.
Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. Both his books, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9781787303317
Published: 2 Feb 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 204mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 363g
Pages: 240

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