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'Breathtakingly beautiful' - i
'Tender and wholehearted' - Helen Jukes
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES AND I
When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, grieving and living out of a suitcase in her late twenties, Alice Vincent begins planting seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her many temporary London homes with green. As the months pass, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life.
Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.
'Breathtakingly beautiful' - i
'Tender and wholehearted' - Helen Jukes
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES AND I
When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, grieving and living out of a suitcase in her late twenties, Alice Vincent begins planting seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her many temporary London homes with green. As the months pass, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life.
Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.
Alice Vincent is Features Editor at Penguin Books, having
previously worked as a writer and editor on the arts desk of the
Telegraph. After teaching herself to garden in 2014, Alice started
to share her adventures in urban gardening through Noughticulture,
a newsletter and Instagram account, as well as in a column for the
Telegraph. She has since written for Gardener's World and Gardens
Illustrated, appeared on Gardeners' Question Time, collaborated
with Hunter, Finery, Monsoon and Seedlip, among others, and hosts
workshops and a YouTube channel for Patch Plants. Her first book,
How To Grow Stuff, was published in 2017. Rootbound was longlisted
for the Wainwright Prize. She lives in South London.
@noughticulture | @alice_emily
Breathtakingly beautiful writing about the natural world . . .
Vincent's championing of female gardeners from eras past is both
cheering and fascinating . . . Rootbound is a story of growth
* * i * *
This memoir has the potential to be the millennials' answer to Eat
Pray Love
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Rootbound is a poignant testimony to the joy that greenery will
bring to your life, and it is a magical reminder that humans, like
plants, can mend and grow in their own good time
* * Independent * *
Reading this book is like breathing fresh spring air. Rootbound is
achingly honest and earthily good, a beautiful hymn to wild hope,
strength and tenderness, in nature and in ourselves. I loved it
*CHARLOTTE RUNCIE author of SALT ON YOUR TONGUE*
A book about heartbreak, salvation, nature and balcony gardens . .
. Alice Vincent mixes memoir with botanical history to explore how
plants can heal us
* * Huffington Post * *
As much a green prescription for a richer, more connected life as a
beautiful story of hope. Rootbound captures our universal need for
nature, freedom and replenishment, away from the manmade, rushed
woes of modern living . . . A valuable reminder to us all, that
couldn't come at a better time
*SARAH IVENS author of FOREST THERAPY*
A deeply personal exploration of the healing power of plants
* * Independent * *
There are riffs on everything from famous women gardeners to the
history of New York's wondrous High Line elevated linear park . . .
Rootbound gives a revealing insight into Alice's generation, their
concerns, self-absorption and earnestness. It also radiates a
youthful enthusiasm and optimism, a hunger to reconnect with nature
even in the midst of a sea of concrete, and the refreshing belief
that anything is possible. Millenials, in particular, will love
it
* * Daily Mail * *
Unrestrained, exuberant, vigorous, forthright . . . A tender and
wholehearted story of re-finding that most precious resource, the
space to grow
*HELEN JUKES author of A HONEYBEE HEART HAS FIVE OPENINGS*
Heartbreak can be the best teacher . . . [A] hopeful memoir of
self-discovery and horticulture . . . A beguiling bouquet whose
vibrancy feels extra welcome as the first green shoots of spring
start to show
* * Mail on Sunday * *
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