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The Jewel Garden

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1st March 2012

Price: £12.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444718782

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‘TRULY INSPIRING’ Mail on Sunday

Now familiar to millions of Gardeners’ World fans as Longmeadow (the home of Nigel & Nellie), this is the story of Monty & Sarah Don‘s early days there. The Jewel Garden is the story of the garden that bloomed from the muddy fields around the Dons’ Tudor farmhouse, a perfect metaphor for the Monty and Sarah’s own rise from the ashes of a spectacular commercial failure in the late ’80s .

At the same time The Jewel Garden is the story of a creative partnership that has weathered the greatest storm, and a testament to the healing powers of the soil. Monty Don has always been candid about the garden’s role in helping him to pull back from the abyss of depression; The Jewel Garden elaborates on this much further. Written in an optimistic, autobiographical vein, Monty and Sarah’s story is truly an exploration of what it means to be a gardener.

Reviews

Julie Myerson, Books of the Year, <i>Independent on Sunday</i>
Overwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for. Like everything else Don does, this purports to be about gardens and gardening but is actually a meditation on family and love.
<i>Mail on Sunday</i>
Truly inspiring ... told with compelling honesty
Mail on Sunday
Truly inspiring... Told with compelling honesty
Independent on Sunday
Overwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for... a meditation on family and love