"This LoveReading Star Book is as charming as it is thought-provoking, a garden becomes a place of sanctuary, inclusion, reflection, and love. "
The love for a piece of earth has brought this book to life, and the importance of this garden, both to the author and the reader, cannot be understated. Author Marchelle Farrell becomes friend and guide as she encourages you to explore her garden, her history, and her thoughts.
Uprooting centres around the search for a place to call home, it slips into the past, researches and analyses colonialism, and then weaves in the intimacy of family and self. This incredibly open and evocative memoir settles into being among a lifelong love of plants and the story of a garden. I found it absolutely fascinating, and just had to include Uprooting as both a LoveReading Star Book and Liz Pick of the Month.
Beauty, pain, and hope are to be found within the pages, and while it is fiercely raw and intense in places, it is also kind and empathetic. It is incredibly easy to read, there is a delicious flow and an invitation to become at one with the words. Highly recommended, Uprooting is a wonderfully generous memoir, it offers the chance to listen, learn, and fall in love with a garden.
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What is home?
It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for career in psychiatry saw her leave behind the pristine beaches and emerald hills of Trinidad. Until, disillusioned, she uprooted again, this time for the peaceful English countryside.
The only Black woman in her village, Marchelle hopes to grow a new life. But when a worldwide pandemic and a global racial reckoning collide, the upheaval of colonialism that has led her to this place begins to be unearthed. Is this really home? And can she ever feel truly grounded here?
Drawn to her new garden, Marchelle begins to examine this complex and emotional question through the psychotherapeutic lens of her work. As her relationship with the garden deepens, she discovers that her two conflicting identities are far more intertwined than she had realised.
Full of hope and healing, Uprooting is a book about finding home where we least expect it, and which invites us to reconnect to the land - and ourselves.
Uprooting features in the following genres: Gardening, Biographies & Autobiographies, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Memoirs, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Colonialism and imperialism, History: specific events and topics, History, History and Archaeology, Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Star Books, Recommendations
Uprooting is available in Paperback, Hardback
Uprooting was written by Marchelle Farrell and published by Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books
Uprooting has 288 pages
£9.89
