The Grassling EPUB
by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
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'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . The Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original voice' PD Smith, Guardian
What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing.
Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780141989631
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780141989631