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Earthed
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Rebecca Schiller
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
What happens when the good life is harder than anything you ever imagined? Earthed is a beautiful memoir from the author of All That Matters, Rebecca Schiller.
After moving to a countryside smallholding, Rebecca Schiller finds her family's new life is far from simple. Overwhelmed by what she has taken on and reeling from the turmoil in the wider world, her mind begins to unravel. And so she turns to her two acres and to the women of this land's past, searching for answers and hope.
Here, she stumbles on a wild space of imaginative leaps, where she begins to uncover the hidden layers of her plot's history - and of herself. As the seasons shift, the ground under Rebecca's boots offers hard lessons, delivering unflinching glimpses of damage done to peoples and the planet and revealing brutal truths about the seeds she holds in her hands.
Yet as a New Year arrives, offering a life-changing diagnosis and then a global pandemic, Rebecca begins to move forwards with understanding. The smallholding has become her anchor and her family's shelter, an ancient oak tree her talisman and her guide.
Critic Reviews
"Incredibly bold, brave, poetic and absolutely beautiful." (Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games)
"A powerfully confessional memoir that excavates important truths about our lives, our selves and our dreams - and what happens when we have to let go." (Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless Nights)
"This is a book that will reshape how you view the world." (Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places)
"A much-needed story of resilience drawing on the histories of the people who have gone before and to whom this land once belonged." (Dr Pragya Agarwal, author of Sway)
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- 13-11-2021
Agonising!
I am one of those people who needs to finish the book in the hope that it will get better... but this is 8hrs and 29mins of my bandwidth that I can't get back.
I say 8+ hours, not 9+, as there was an hour in the middle when the author was going through the process of getting help / a diagnosis - that were interesting and flowed well, and as such were enjoyable.
However - as someone who in 2016 went through much of the same turmoil as the author, and who continues to live with adhd, anxiety and depression as well as other chronic health conditions - this book was just an agonising jumble of wild racing, nonsensical thought patterns - which whilst that happens to us in Life, it has not translated well at all in this particular book.
In my own personal experience, our Farm and garden saved my Life - literally - so this was a book that initially spoke to me having read its summary.
How wrong I was....
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