Katherine Swift

The Morville Hours

The Story of a Garden

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Sunday Times bestseller

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 36037
• UK ed.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780747598237
• ISBN-10: 0747598231
• Artikelnr.: 25692982

Autorenporträt

Katherine Swift lives at The Dower House, Morville Hall in Shropshire. She worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and Dublin before becoming a full-time gardener and writer in 1988. She was for four years gardening columnist of The Times, and has written widely in the gardening press, including an acclaimed series on the gardens and landscapes of Orkney for Hortus. She is the author of The Morville Hours, a Sunday Times bestseller.

Rezensionen

'A magical book. I have read it twice now. I love the richness of Katherine Swift's prose; the flashes of her family's story that are scattered through the deliciously written text; the gorgeous detail. The Morville Hours is the most beautiful book I have read in years' Nigel Slater