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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 23/04/2020
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ISBN: 9780141989624
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
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Weight: 157g
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RRP: £9.99
'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books' 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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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 23/04/2020
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ISBN: 9780141989624
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
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Weight: 157g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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With a blend of poetry, memoir and a uniquely experimental, sensory style of nature writing, The Grassling celebrates the lusciousness of both land and language ... Ideas that might in a lesser writer have seemed whimsical are grounded by the rich layers of Burnett's prose.
TLS
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A poetic, lyrical tribute to the earth beneath our feet . . . Burnett is one of the freshest voices in the current crop of nature writers
Countryfile
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This astonishingly beautiful ode to the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside . . . [evokes] a richly immersive sense of the natural world and our place within it.
Country Living
