The Morville Hours

By Katherine Swift

Book Overview

An exquisitely written book about one particular English garden and about the arc of life. Nobody writes about gardens like the English. And few English writers have ever been as eloquent or astute as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747598231
• ISBN13: 9780747598237
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Take the Time

The Morville Hours is a meditation on gardening, history, one's place and time. It is beautifully written. It's not a gardening book but a gardening book of the soul and place. I love some of her descriptions of breathing the air, and tilling the soil that generations have breathed and tilled. Perhaps we are too solution conscious to stop, stand still, and look at the snow by moonlight. If you like these things, I highly recommend this book to you. I am buying 5 as gifts. I would recommend the following: Clear Mind, Wild HeartThe Elegance of the HedgehogThe Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden][[ASIN:0312427808 The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

Now me, I love this book.

I'm currently reading it, and I absolutely love it. I can see where it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I find her soliloquies on gardens, animal life, history, the liturgical year and a million other things enchanting. It's a slow, meditative book, very thoughtful and intelligent. It reminds me a little of 'The Cloister Walk', which is of a similar meditative bent.