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And I Shall Have Some Peace There
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Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road
By
Margaret Roach
This item is unavailable.We will email you if this item comes back into stock. | Rating: | | | Format: | Electronic Book Text, 272 pages | | Published In: | United States, 23 February 2011 |
This e-book includes 26 bonus photos from the author!
Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and professional rewards of her job, Margaret felt unfulfilled. So she moved to her weekend house upstate in an effort to lead a more authentic life by connecting with her garden and with nature. The memoir she wrote about this journey is funny, quirky, humble--and uplifting--an "Eat, Pray, Love" without the travel-and allows readers to live out the fantasy of quitting the rat race and getting away from it all.
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ReviewsRoach is best known for her popular and critically acclaimed gardening blog, A Way to Garden. In this personal memoir, she describes her transformation as she sheds her corporate carapace as editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and begins life in a small upstate New York town. She expects to find peace and solitude there, a place to discern a new identity, independent of her professional success. Instead, she finds herself untethered and unexpectedly fearful of snakes, snow storms, and silence. A circuitous spiritual journey follows as Roach consults with an assortment of shamans and matchmakers and the occasional exterminator. She eventually finds some ballast in the deeper rhythms of country life and the reliable kindness of neighbors. Roach's gardening writing on her blog and in her previous book (A Way to Garden) is clear, thorough, and thoughtful. Readers may appreciate her candid, stream-of-consciousness style in this memoir, but it is too unstructured and inchoate to be as satisfying as her other work. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing | | ISBN: | 0446574023 |
| EAN: | 9780446574020 |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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