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The Morville Year
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations.
Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Year takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's place in the world and putting down roots.
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- Seagull
- 12-05-18
Enjoyable
I was in a dilemma as to whether or not to buy this book. I'd loved the previous book, The Morville Hours, but this one has a different narrator - who I'd heard reading the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, and absolutely hated her performance. However, I took a chance, and was glad I had. The content of the book is more completely focused on the garden than the previous book is, but still just as interesting. And fortunately Jane McDowell's voice is very much better suited to this book than it is to the Wimsey stories. If you like gardening and enjoy a gently undemanding book, then I'd certainly recommend this one.
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- Tina
- 09-08-18
I learnt so much in such an enjoyable way
This diary flits around from year to year, picking out the most interesting facts about things related to the garden in order of the seasons. As a fairly new gardener, it was enthralling to learn about our native plants and the exotic heritage of others with some charming reminiscences and asides thrown in. I loved it and intend going back through and take notes for future reference.
My only reservation was that the narrator has a rather stilted style and has no idea how to pronounce many words, especially when naming plants. Neverthess, she was quite easy to listen to and I'll enjoy delving back into it many times more.
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- karen bray
- 12-01-22
Unexpected joy!
I accidentally came across this book looking for an easy listen and this came up recommended after listening to several other gardening and nature related books. I was a bit doubtful of the narrator at first but settled in easily, and the whole book was a complete joy to listen to. If you love nature and gardening and want to be transported through the seasons with a hint of botanical history thrown in too, then this is perfect. It was such a tonic whilst the grey skies and rain of December and January made me miss my garden.
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- Julieb
- 02-01-20
lovely.
I am not a gardener but even I found this book a treasure and very interesting.
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