'A lucid and compelling memoir of family rupture and repair and the power of plants to anchor us in the world' - Sue Stuart-Smith, author of the Sunday Times Bestseller The Well Gardened Mind
'Magnificent...I will never forget it' - Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
'A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship, selfhood, memory, and the roots we share across time, space and species' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything
'A lyrical and at times cryptic meditation on nature, kinship and the lives of both humans and plants' - New Statesman
'In this beautiful book Kyo Maclear unravels the knotty stories we inherit - and create - about who we are and where we come from. With deftness and clarity she ranges from meditations on memory, belonging and truth, to the earthy tangibility of the garden. Fierce, loving, inquisitive, devastating - this book got under my nails and into my heart. I loved it' - Lulah Ellender, author of Grounding
