View from a shed
By: Michael Wale
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781405639200; 9781405639217
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Allotment gardens; Gardeners; Anecdotes; Large type books; Homes
Description: Not a book about gardening, it's a book about people who garden ... people like old Mrs Fuller who remembers watching First World War Italian POWs demolish the local manor house; General Safi former Protector of the Kind of Afghanistan who fled his native country after being imprisoned and tortured; and Michael Wale, who's had an allotment since 1980 and has an obsession with compost. As Wale embarks on a narrative journey through the seasons in his allotment world, he engages with his fellow gardeners and tells their stories. View From A Shed is for everyone in the big city who has dreamt about country life - it doesn't have to be just a dream.
Notes: Originally published: London : Allison & Busby, 2006.