Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
Author: first_name:  Mary
last_name: Webb
Language: English
Year: 1917

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapted for film and television.   She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire countryside where she grew up and spent much of her life.  At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease known as Graves' disease, a thyroid condition.  She was often confined to her bed but came to believe that her love of and connection with nature helped in her hea