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2. The perfect gift for the gardener in your life, or for anyone who loved Late Migrations and H is for Hawk. A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing. 8221 8212 Shelf Awareness&nbsp(STARRED Review)&nbsp With chapters... [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery ...&nbspSeed to Dust&nbspis an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does 8212 with a close eye to what changes, and what does not. 8221 8212 The Wall Street Journal Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12- acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It 8217 s rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it 8217 s not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it. 8221 In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that belongs to everyone. 8221 He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he 8217 s in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and 8212 now 8212 feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere 8217 s life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book 8217 s end, Hamer 8217 s connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of nature emerge.&nbsp Just like all good books and gardens, Seed to Dust is filled with equal parts life and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find

3. something different to admire. A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing. 8221 8212 Shelf Awareness&nbsp(STARRED Review)&nbsp With chapters... [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery ...&nbspSeed to Dust&nbspis an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does 8212 with a close eye to what changes, and what does not. 8221 8212 The Wall Street Journal Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It 8217 s rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it 8217 s not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it. 8221 In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that belongs to everyone. 8221 He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he 8217 s in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and 8212 now 8212 feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere 8217 s life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book 8217 s end, Hamer 8217 s connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of nature emerge.&nbsp Just like all good books and gardens, Seed to Dust is filled with equal parts life and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find something different to admire.